I guess its goodbye. Everyone is packing up and moving on. I want to thank everyone who made this forum what it is; the people who posted soundtrack after soundtrack, filled requests, and answered questions. I hope we can find a new hopefully private forum. to everyone thats leaving lets get a new hang-out only problem is how can we notify each other when we find it there must be something better than PM. i was thinking IRC?
Anyways thanks so much to everyone here. i will still be hanging around for a while while we find a new site.


Thanks For Everything,

George Fox

this was the best forum!

i'm hoping!

"The music is all around us.
All you have to do is listen."

I thought this was going to be some kind of soundtrack to the Michael Jackson movie. O.o

le sigh. you guys are being really silly.


as said in another thread:

there's no need for it to go private and no need for anyone to leave.

no one is in any danger here. worst case scenario, a company requests specific soundtracks not be posted. that's it.

going to another forum wouldn't prevent that, and going private wouldn't prevent that. it's something you have to deal with.

I thought this was going to be some kind of soundtrack to the Michael Jackson movie. O.o

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

Yeah, I'm a bit unclear on all of this...what happened???

Yeah, I'm a bit unclear on all of this...what happened???

long story but basically

a pissed off member went to some record labels and reported the forum he caused a big panic after posting emails and stuff 1000s of times. now we arent allowed to share a few soundtracks big deal but that number may keep growing if we go private no more troll no more takedowns

I thought this was going to be some kind of soundtrack to the Michael Jackson movie. O.o

LOL when i was writing the post i was like maybe this will cause some confusion but ended up getting distracted.

This should have been, if at all (I don't think it's important at all), in the roof section to this one, as it's no download link.

Though, as Sar... I mean effulgent lovemuffin already said, there won't be any charges against any user. And even if FFShrine's music section would go down, there still would be other sites with that stuff. And those have to face the same amount of "danger" as FFShrine.

Also, keep in mind that the Japanese copyright law works entirely different, so at least the Japanese most likely wouldn't track this forum down.

So... keep on going, just remove whatever the American labels want to remove.

and you could always wildcard the titles out, just so they didn't pop in search engines. Like the one guy said he found this forum when he was looking for reviews. District 9 OST becomes Distr!@t 9 OST, I think we all can fill in the blanks. If you just blindly post the names, then you are asking to be found and attracting attention. Now, I'm sure someone is going to say how are other people going to find it in the first place. The people that share would be part of regular forums and take part, but make it harder than for any 9 year old immature brat to put it in google and it be in the top 10. Let the ill-informed and leechers of the world stick with their torrents.

and you could always wildcard the titles out, just so they didn't pop in search engines. Like the one guy said he found this forum when he was looking for reviews. District 9 OST becomes Distr!@t 9 OST, I think we all can fill in the blanks.

yeah but the companies have very advanced ways of finding this stuff. though not specific about forums more p2p look up media defender they are hired by companies like the RIAA and MPAA to keep tabs on this stuff.i downloaded all the source code for their software you wouldn't believe what it can do (this is from 2006 i have no idea what they use now)

It also would give trouble to us too, since we couldn't use the search engine of the boards anymore, hah.

Can we make a secret thread only shown to identified menbers?

You could privatize this subforum.

Regardless, I see no download links in this thread... ;P

I know I'm just a minor member around here, but I for one am not going anywhere. :)

I know I'm just a minor member around here, but I for one am not going anywhere. :)

These forums are reserved for perverted phoenix wright/suikoden afficionados like myself. I like to think that, anyway.

You know ... the lossless thread was killed off because it became a disaster with all the deleted posts (and yeah I did that as well although I pretty much waited til the very end to do so).

The point is ... nothing ... NOTHING ... is stopping us from starting a NEW lossless film/tv score/soundtrack thread. Other than Varese Sarabande (which I admit is a big chunk of stuff) everything else would still be allowable. At least if no more CEASE & DESIST letters come down the pike heh

'Tis a thought ...

You know ... the lossless thread was killed off because it became a disaster with all the deleted posts (and yeah I did that as well although I pretty much waited til the very end to do so).

The point is ... nothing ... NOTHING ... is stopping us from starting a NEW lossless film/tv score/soundtrack thread. Other than Varese Sarabande (which I admit is a big chunk of stuff) everything else would still be allowable. At least if no more CEASE & DESIST letters come down the pike heh

'Tis a thought ...

yeah but Varese Sarabande includes releases not by them if they released one in the pass. anyways i think that its just going to keep happening its amazing that these threads has been here as long as it was without much action

You could privatize this subforum.

We actually already had a discussion about a privatized download subboard before, and it was denied.

Thing is, if we have it public, it encourages people to upload stuff. I, for once, wouldn't have become a contributor without FFShrine's topics first letting me leech.
Well, right now I'm not contributing because I'm kindasorta on a break, but y'know.

Reading this topic, I guess I don't check FFShrine enough anymore. o_O

Aw man I just got here. :(

I'll keep sticking around though, I like this place. :)

why are you putting the forum down.

what has happend to it?

Is there any way to tell what we aren't allowed to share anymore?

Just curious.

Wait... what?

I don't understand, is the forum getting shut down, or just the music sharing portion... or what?

*is baffled*

Is there any way to tell what we aren't allowed to share anymore?

Just curious.
As for the music: music that may NOT be posted for legal reasons (Thread 49829)

Wait... what?

I don't understand, is the forum getting shut down, or just the music sharing portion... or what?

*is baffled*

Nothing at all.

Just a few albums from a few record labels aren't allowed to be posted anymore. That's all.

Nothing at all.

Just a few albums from a few record labels aren't allowed to be posted anymore. That's all.

Oh lol, okay then.

Thank you for the clarification. :)

As for the music: music that may NOT be posted for legal reasons (Thread 49829)

You know, the funny thing is that I knew this thread existed. I just didn't feel like thinking, I guess.

Thanks!

i said this since last year that mods need to be stricter and ban idiots with a no nonsense policy. i go to various download forums and they are either closed off, private or invite only forums which for most part they work and have been around for several years, cause the community is tight and there's no nonsense. this troll should have been dealt with since day 1. perma bans, ip bans. its the only way to preserve this community. no offence to those who run this place but that's my 2 cents.

ip banning him wasn't possible, he was using proxies.

So all of this was started because someone has the green eye of jealousy? Since when did sharing music become a competition?

The internet has breeded some of the most stupidest people ever.

i said this since last year that mods need to be stricter and ban idiots with a no nonsense policy. i go to various download forums and they are either closed off, private or invite only forums which for most part they work and have been around for several years, cause the community is tight and there's no nonsense. this troll should have been dealt with since day 1. perma bans, ip bans. its the only way to preserve this community. no offence to those who run this place but that's my 2 cents.

I agree here that the mods need to be more strict, this place has the worst leecher infestation ever., there are already enough 1 posters complaining about download links in my threads, now imagine how many zero posters are leeching off of the links?

its ridiculous.

zero posters viewing the links is a good thing, it essentially keeps links alive longer

can definitely consider adding more mods.

in either case, it's really unrelated to what's recently happened really

Neg = Strict mod

Enough said.

I used to be a mod in chatrooms, and I know strict mods when I see them.

People already have to register to see links, so I don't know that going semi-private would make all that much of a difference. If this was a smaller community, doing something like moderating new members would be feasible, but I think it would be way too much on the forums as is.

I agree that these forums need more mods, though, especially since some of the mods for this forum now aren't particularly active. If Sarah is good with it I'm sure we can add a few more soon.

Neg = Strict mod

Enough said.

I used to be a mod in chatrooms, and I know strict mods when I see them.

This is sarcasm, right?

Sarcasm can't be read through text. Only if you type saying sarcastically. I didn't mean no disrespect. More of a compliment. I meant I know those who know how to get the word through to other members. Or spread fear in my words.

I agree here that the mods need to be more strict, this place has the worst leecher infestation ever., there are already enough 1 posters complaining about download links in my threads, now imagine how many zero posters are leeching off of the links?

its ridiculous.

A mindset like this is ridiculous.

I know that not being appreciated is a horrible feeling (hence I'm taking a break from uploading stuff, as you might have noticed). People who're posting like "Where the fuck is my upload link, asshole?" are annoying and take away a lot of motivation. I know that too.

However, having people leech is not only a good thing for keeping links alive, it also promotes the idea of sharing with others. I leeched a few months only before I started uploading and contributing myself. And I'm pretty certain that this is the history of quite a lot of contributors.
Also - why upload shit if noone downloads it? An uploader is nothing without people downloading, lol.

I think that:

A) If someone went to the trouble of registering an account just to download your music, they must really want those downloads. =P

B) In vB (which, unless I'm wrong, this is?), isn't it possible to set permissions? As in, certain levels of forums that only members with the right "permissions" can see? For example, not any member (or google crawler) would be able to see a sub-forum withh a certain permission leve?
^^Hope that made sense, if not, please ask!

C) People who upload music are offering it as a privilege, a certain level of appreciation should be given for any download. Of course, "leechers" help notify when links are down, but "leechers" should always remember that the links are a privilege, and its definitely not in their place to demand that you post up a link "Within the next goddamn days yo!" (to quote a certain poster).

B) In vB (which, unless I'm wrong, this is?), isn't it possible to set permissions? As in, certain levels of forums that only members with the right "permissions" can see? For example, not any member (or google crawler) would be able to see a sub-forum withh a certain permission leve?
^^Hope that made sense, if not, please ask!

That would single out people like me who become contributors after getting more involved.


C) People who upload music are offering it as a privilege, a certain level of appreciation should be given for any download. Of course, "leechers" help notify when links are down, but "leechers" should always remember that the links are a privilege, and its definitely not in their place to demand that you post up a link "Within the next goddamn days yo!" (to quote a certain poster).

Only speaking for myself here:
Request which are worded like that or people who post their request in multiple threads offering that file won't get an upload from me at all, and people who post multiple times into my thread asking for a certain upload and are impatient simply will have to wait longer.
If everyone would work like that, we might be able to trim that down.

@Shotput Good points, I agree with you completely.

A mindset like this is ridiculous.

I know that not being appreciated is a horrible feeling (hence I'm taking a break from uploading stuff, as you might have noticed). People who're posting like "Where the fuck is my upload link, asshole?" are annoying and take away a lot of motivation. I know that too.

However, having people leech is not only a good thing for keeping links alive, it also promotes the idea of sharing with others. I leeched a few months only before I started uploading and contributing myself. And I'm pretty certain that this is the history of quite a lot of contributors.
Also - why upload shit if noone downloads it? An uploader is nothing without people downloading, lol.

Yes but how many leechers actually started sharing music in after downloading from my threads? none.

Most of the leechers that get my links just fucks off immediately, no one says thanks, threads dont get bumped, link dies, some twats come in and bump the thread a year or months later and says: OMG PLZ reupload PLZ!!

Why i started big threads from now on. :)

Rinse repeat.

Yes but how many leechers actually started sharing music in after downloading from my threads? none.

Thank you for saying I am nobody. :)

You're just as much of an asshole as those people.

Edit: Oh, I just saw that you said YOUR threads.
Wow, you are the most egoistical and self-centered jerk I've ever seen.

And yet i have been contributing for a few years now unlike the leechers. and i know people would say the same thing about them.

You're just as much of an asshole as those people.


I don't know how you have the audacity to say that.

And yet i have been contributing for a few years now unlike the leechers. and i know people would say the same thing about them.

not everyone has awesome uploads speeds. yeah sure there are leechers but the idea about uploading is to sure the wealth. and there's little point re-uploading the same thing if the links are still good. i would suggest that leechers re-up dead links of downloads they acquired. i upload what i can.

Thank you for saying I am nobody. :)

You're just as much of an asshole as those people.

Edit: Oh, I just saw that you said YOUR threads.
Wow, you are the most egoistical and self-centered jerk I've ever seen.

I think you took that the wrong way, Orange didn't mean to insult you, all he meant was that he's tired of leechers, as I'm sure you are too, in a way.


not everyone has awesome uploads speeds. yeah sure there are leechers but the idea about uploading is to sure the wealth. and there's little point re-uploading the same thing if the links are still good. i would suggest that leechers re-up dead links of downloads they acquired. i upload what i can.

Amen to that.

I don't know how you have the audacity to say that.

Because he's an extremist.

And yes, I know it's silly to be an extremeist over pirated music. But that's essentially the position he takes.

An extremist???

Do you even know the guy.

Because he's an extremist.

And yes, I know it's silly to be an extremeist over pirated music. But that's essentially the position he takes.

An extremist? like a terrorist?

uhh no you dont know me man, so try harder, im not sure why you are insulting me i was just voicing my opinion on the forum.

lol, extremism has nothing to do with terrorism.

Extremism is if you are clinging to one position/opinion and are defending it with teeth and claws, and even go so far to shove it down the throat of others and use verbal attacks or violence to enforce this.

If you're only "OMG fuck those leeching assholes, they don't deserve my stuff, they should die in a fire because they are downloading MY uploads, those bastards", then I do see extremist tendencies in your behaviour.

First of all, generalization (all leechers are bad and only want your stuff without returning anything).
Secondly, attacking them verbally.
And finally, attacking those who defend and try to explain the opposition.

Your just taking this too far

Well leechers are generally bad because they leech of your stuff and never have any appreciation to thank the uploader. you think they are just poor lost souls that are starving for some links.


The truth is this place really is shit.

Why i keep coming back here and sharing is because i know a few good friends that actually do say thanks when they download one of my threads.


Anyway im done with this petty argument. Keep defending the fucking leechers if you want, but they should be dragged to hell. call me an extremist i dont care, that's my opinion on them.

I work hard on my rips, i work on a week for one game sometimes, and i get called an asshole and a jerk, fuck outta here buddy

PWN3D

lmao.

Also, barnaby, please stop riding Orange's meat.

I know him.
He's my friend and I also support his beliefs.
Plus I belive I can side with whoever I wish.

Thankyou very much.

Take care now.

Yea, but you're sucking his cock right now. =P