LuigiHann

@romevi Yeah it's not a rip-off, just a re-skin. The same developer apparently licensed the game to be released on the Genesis as Mean Bean Machine, on the SNES as Kirby's Avalanche, and on PC as "Qwirks"... Sega adopted the series under its original name after the original developer closed.

To be fair, the "Music Publishing Companies" are the companies that represent the songwriters and handle the licensing of music as written, as opposed to the more-frequently-discussed "Record Labels" which represent performers and handle the licensing of music as recorded. The reason I bring this up is because A) these are not the same sort of company that cracks down on grandmas and little girls for pirating music, and B) it is their business to license cover versions of songs, and therefore it is their business to prevent people from making unlicensed covers of songs. I'm sure this is one of those things where, like with trademark law, if they "just let it slide this time because it's not for profit," it sets a very bad precedent that could hurt them in future cases where they try to protect their property.

That video seems to be charting the majority of both songs to the right-hand track, which kind of misses the point of DJ Hero... but other than that, cool

@chazz06 To steal his tie? Or his mullet?

@vidguy Oh, I didn't notice that the document itself was linked to. Crazy, then, that he complained about it two years ago and that it didn't get filed until now. Lawyer stuff can be pretty slow though, I suppose.

@Kirkpad He was complaining about it back in 2008. Some people may remember Axl's famous "nonsensical Guitar Hero rant" from around then:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2008/12/axl-rose-unhappy-with-slash-guitar-hero-rants-long-and-hard.ars

My guess is he filed the suit way back then, and it only recently got to a point where the outside world got to look at it.

My favorite is the guitar solo in Chicago's "You're The Inspiration." I'm pretty sure it's only three notes, but it totally makes the song work

@mrmobius It's an enigne wrapped in a riddle

Sure am glad I bought it for 40 bucks at the same store a freaking month ago...

@WINterfang I think it's cute.