- Dec 24, 2018
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SOME music is free. Try putting Taylor Swift songs in an AVN like SG and see how quickly you find out it's not freely available.It literally blows my mind even to this day that in the year of 2024, people still don't know how the internet works. It IS actually FREE.
All you have to do is use your friend google and "download free music" or whatever. It's that simple. Suuuure music is part of the game or any game but you really don't have to throw ridiculous amounts of money on something that MOST people don't really care that much.
If you don't wish to risk lawsuits, you don't pirate or repackage someone else's copyrighted work (even most creative common licenses don't allow commercial use) without their permission unless you know their copyright terms. Most people get away with it because the cost of pursuing an international case is prohibitive.
In Ocean's case, the rights holders could easily send takedown notices to steam/epic/gog etc if he did the wrong thing. That's the situation Ocean is avoiding by paying for music, and removing the 18+ lewds in season 1.
For season 2 Ocean did say he's going to look at whether there were viable free music options - the question is whether he finds music that inspires him, and whether his willing to risk using it without being certain they won't change their copyright terms when they see SG making money with their music.