Wesnoth Music Plagiarism and Ripoff

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Nikita_Sadkov
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Wesnoth Music Plagiarism and Ripoff

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Check this :eng:

Betrayal at Krondor (Title Theme):
https://youtu.be/43mQ-m65skI?t=23

Battle for Wesnoth - Wanderer:
https://youtu.be/WkM6fn6lpUQ?t=180


I guess that is a lawsuit waiting to happen :doh:
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Re: Wesnoth Music Plagiarism and Ripoff

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They're... completely different? I hear no exact similarity.
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Re: Wesnoth Music Plagiarism and Ripoff

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zookeeper wrote:They're... completely different? I hear no exact similarity.
Take a Mario sprite, recolor it, transplant boots from Sonic sprite. Voila! You made completely different sprite. No exact similarity. :lol:

Better yet. Take Microsoft Windows source code, rename every variable there, add the Linux's Tux logo. Now you've made a completely different innovative OS!
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Re: Wesnoth Music Plagiarism and Ripoff

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Nikita_Sadkov wrote:Betrayal at Krondor (Title Theme):
https://youtu.be/43mQ-m65skI?t=23
Betrayal at Krondor, according to this Wikipedia page, was first released in 1993. Needless to say, Still Another Wanderer was made later than it. So, I can't see how they could possibly have plagiarized it - perhaps by using a time travel machine, going forward to 2006, downloading it on some floppy disks and going back to 1993? :P
Unless you mean that Wanderer is a ripoff of the other track, in which case I must agree with zookeeper.
Anyway, since the situation has been cleared, until further proofs are supplied I'm locking this thread.
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