ssj12 said:
The fact that Ubisoft is using a random individual's music download file versus a collective of music they purchased an agreement for mass distribution makes no sense as obviously they should own the rights to the use of the music. The only reasons for this is that either their servers suck so badly that they can't handle farther P2P streams or they only own the rights to the music for ingame use so the additional pack-in for the digital collector's edition actually costs Ubisoft per-download so they are negating responsibility to pay for what they are giving out. |
I don't actually think that's what it's saying is it? I mean, what the article says to me it's on their servers it;s just that they are using someone elses digitial encoding... IE Ripping.
So for example like Ke$ha comes out with a new song, and releases the CD... some fans then rip the CD and put it online, she decides to give that cd away for free in digital form for those who buy her new video DVD.
Now, instead of ripping the cd from the disc. She torrents her own CD and releases it.
Problem being, when you rip a CD, it usually says who ripped it.
As for why you would do this... my only guess would be, nobody had the CD at the time they weanted to rip it and some guy was like "It's probably pirateable online... and i mean it's OUR product, so it's not like we'd be pirating."
Either that or the encoding was exceptionally well done and ubisoft didn't have the right tools to pull it off. Studio level encoding programs are probably expensive as hell.
