Entire Super Mario Galaxy 2 soundtrack now on YouTube

See children. This is what you call an unsult. It's when you give an insult that's disguised as a compliment. All of you young trolls out there need to learn how to do this to succeed.

even don't I this is what

Unsult?

It's known as a backhanded compliment by everyone else.

unsult sounds better...

@Jerry

I have that CD as well.
Awesome stuff, right? =]

That's what he said. "Awesome".

ZOMG NO WAI !!!!!!1!!

The game:
I just lost it.

Crap, now I just lost it too!

I lost the game

I just lost the match

I rost my mar-buhls

you all do know that the game is over right?

I would laugh if Wart or even Wario is the final final boss...

Legal? No. Nintendo could have it taken down if they wanted. Having said that, every big name OST (and plenty of no-name OST's) from a video game released in the past twenty years is up on Youtube, and there really is no stopping it. If they have it taken down, someone else will put it right back up.

As for Wii piracy...well...most of the game blogs have written articles about how to get an .iso loader working on the Wii. Joystiq is one of the few holdouts, and it's not like linking to SMG2 music on youtube is encouraging people to pirate games in any way, shape, or form anyway.

All I meant is that an innocent 8 year old (about half of joystiq's readers, give or take) might go on the video and see "Super Mario Galaxy 2 download" and will think "OH BOY now I don't have to go to Wal-mart!". It's an easy induction. All I'm saying is: beware.

no u meh

To me is the fact that Nintendo hasn't sent C&D DMCA takedown notice yet is newsworthy.

Sounds like it might actually BE the composer and they obtained Nintendo's permission.

Battlerock reminds me of Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys for some reason.

Hmmm... I don't hear that for some reason. Purple Comet, however, I hear the best music in a video game ever. Although, I do love FFXIII's soundtrack almost as much.

I also loved LBP's soundtrack. Speaking of LBP, I just got it last night. If anybody wants to try my levels or play with me on a few levels my PSN is "thebertrams".

Is this game as easy as the first SMG? My biggest issue with SMG was that there was literally zero difficulty to the game at all.

BATTLEROCK!!!!!!!! Favorite song ever in a Mario game!!!

Galaxy 2 hasn't shown me anything that blows Battlerock out of the water, but it's still early...(12 Stars, up to World 2--I'm taking my time...)

Actually, it isn't. See, you can't download it and use it for your personal use. Think of it as like a "read-only" document or something. I don't know, have a god damn imagination.

Actually no, it's not that simple.
Granted youtube does grant immediate downloads to any of its videos, but there are millions of addons and websites dedicated to ripping video, or audio from youtube.

In addition to that, this user is, without Nintendo's permission, broadcasting their soundtrack.

It doesn't matter if it's audio or video, this is still Nintendo's property and the user is not allowed to host it online.

This is not music piracy. They songs are posted on Youtube for streaming, and that is all.

Okay, so you run around here yelling "piracy!" and see where that gets you.

Are we sure this isn't actually Mahito Yokota's channel?

I hadn't realised Mahito Yokota was the soundtrack composer.
But we don't know if it's actually him or not, the channel page is very bare with no details what-so-ever.

I mean anyone can register the account MahitoYokota, really. If I were to publish my work on youtube I'd actually say something.

If you're this wound up about the legality of some music on youtube, you need to get a life.

Jenks, I'm concerned about copyright because I want to find work in an industry like animation or video games, where copyright is a large concern.

If everyone is nonchalant about maintaining copyright, to the point that general blogs like Joystiq freely link to potentially offending sources, then I may have trouble holding a job.

Although that was also when I thought Joystiq where reporting on some random youtuber illegally sharing the soundtrack, and not the soundtrack composer himself.

But still, I STILL find it suspect because Nintendo is such a big company with its own official websites, to upload the soundtrack to youtube is odd...

You mean all your kvetching and grandstanding could be all for naught?

Kvetching, I like that word.

But yeah, I made a mistake about who uploaded the soundtrack. Although Youtube music piracy is still an issue that people don't seem to be aware of, and concerns me a bit.

How does it concern you? Unless you had something to do with the sound production of this game, it doesn't affect you in any way.

OH MAN YOU'RE RIGHT IT IS PIRACY

oh no...

God only knows how much money Nintendo is going to lose because people are listening to an unreleased soundtrack online.

I feel so bad for them right now...

People? Listening to music on youtube? Joystiq is encouraging this? Quick men, to the pitchforks!!

Guys, chill.

While Rupee's viewpoint may be considered a little...extreme...he still has the right idea.
It's technically not within the person's rights to upload the soundtrack.
Even if it's the actual composer who is uploading, doesn't he need to have permission from Nintendo as well? Either way that's beside the point.

There's a reason you don't see full length movies on Youtube, and that's because it's not legal.
Same should apply here.

Either way, it's not a big deal unless Nintendo makes it one, so for the time being, move along and don't worry about it.

"There's a reason you don't see full length movies on Youtube"

It's because of the time limit.
BTW, there are full length movies for rent on youtube believe it or not. I watched brothers last night on youtube.

There are plenty of full length movies on youtube.

By the way to put videos on youtube longer than 10 minutes you go into preferences and set up your user type as a "director" ... thats the way it used to be anyway.

A friend of mine is going to college in Austin Texas for 3D modeling and game design/development.

He recently decided to make a game with another friend over the summer using RPG Maker. He sent me a test clip with some of the ideas he had for music (Final Fantasy 7 songs) and battle animations and whatnot.

I first told him, "If I were you I'd change the music, otherwise Square Enix could claim copyright violation and make you stop working on the game, or change a good deal of it."

He replied with, "Well it's not going to be sold, and it's just for fun."

Me: "It doesn't matter if it's for profit or not, or if it's for fun or serious. It's still their music and they get to decide how it's used."

Well a day or two goes by (and he's included even more copyrighted songs now) and he sends me a message.

Him: "Well I asked my teacher, he's been in the industry for a long time, and he said as long as I don't sell the game then it's fine. Stuff like this is actually encouraged in the game industry. Companies are cool with it."

Me: "Your only hope would be a 'fair use' claim, and that wouldn't even apply here. I don't care how long your teacher has 'been in the industry', it doesn't make him an expert at the legal side of things. Copyright law is pretty clear on this."

Him: "Well my teacher has worked for big companies and been in the gaming industry for a long time, so I think he knows what he's talking about."

Me: "He's still wrong. Here's a link to a .gov site that explicitly says what you're doing is copyright violation. Here's proof straight from the government."

Him: "F*** the government. Not like this president or current government has done anything good in the first place. Screw them. My teacher said it's okay. Besides, it's just for fun and to include in a portfolio maybe."

Me: "Okay. Well whatever then... if you don't care then, but I can already tell you that it would be better if you just found songs licensed under creative commons online. It's your game and portfolio though..."



Moral of the story? Even some "professionals" who've "been in the industry for a long time" can make really stupid mistakes and swear by them.