User-made Zelda, Mario tracks removed from GH: World Tour's servers
We imagine that the same knee-jerk reaction that causes first-time players of
LittleBigPlanet to craft startlingly realistic (and often mobile) genitalia is the same force that prompts players of
Guitar Hero: World Tour to re-create popular songs using the game's expansive music creator. However,
World Tour director Brian Bright
warned against such unauthorized covers before the game came out, promising to delete any copyright-unfriendly material -- a promise Neversoft and Activision Blizzard recently fulfilled.
Among the user-created tracks with the most downloads are, unsurprisingly, numerous songs from other video games -- themes from
Zelda and
Mario titles being the most popular. However, in the first mighty swoop of their eraser,
the game's moderators removed the recreated Nintendo tunes from their servers (but not from the hard drives of those who have already downloaded the tracks). We can't help but agree with Activision's stance on copyrighted content -- that said,
you give us some Gitaroo Man covers, internet. You give them to us now.
