I have read through his post, and it still seem he have manipulated to skew the argument in his favor.
You're totally jumping to conclusions.
I don't mean to single you out here, as you're not the only one in this thread who made this mistake. It's just that your post is indicative of the "guilty until proven innocent" mindset that I'm starting to see from a few posters here.
- The fact that he brings up about the soundtrack being "highly acclaimed; it won a Develop award and went to #1 on Bandcamp", which has nothing to do with whether it is a copy or not.
The last 13 words of that quote are the most accurate thing you said in that entire post. That is
exactly right...
it has nothing to do with whether it is a copy or not. So why did you even bother to mention it?
Shaneus had a great response to you on this (I'll bold the first sentence for emphasis):
The soundtrack was sourced entirely from the community forum on his website, with all tracks being completely original. If Atari are clutching at such a weak argument as this, then perhaps whoever qualified to make the final judgement might consider the other points to be just as flimsy regardless of whether they are or not.
Not only is that a great point, but I think it illustrates a problem that I'm already seeing pop up in this thread.
If you repeat a lie enough times, some people will start to believe that it's actually the truth.
Just because Atari's lawyers made such a specious claim in their document does not make it gospel. Anyone with two functioning ears (or even one functioning ear, possibly) could listen to the music in both games and recognize that the TxK soundtrack is
not the same as the Tempest 2000 soundtrack. They are not even
close to being the same. Before you ask, they're not "derivatives" or"cover songs" with a few instruments or individual notes changed here and there.
They are entirely new and original tunes.
Trust me, I have played both games all the way through to completion, multiple times. There is no way anyone could mistake the TxK soundtrack for the Tempest 2000 soundtrack, whether they heard the music inside or outside of the game.
ArtHands, maybe you haven't played either of the games, and posted your thoughts out of a snap judgment. Regardless, it would benefit you (and others who made the same assumption) to either play both games, or at least fire up some lengthy videos of the games being played on YouTube. It just seems that you (and yes, others here too) are too quick to automatically throw the book at Mr. Minter, without actually doing the proper research first.
