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The original notice: Hi, I'm Musescore developer. You need to takedown this repository: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader https://github.com/Xmad

The original notice: Hi, I'm Musescore developer. You need to takedown this repository: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader and any other your public repositories with same code. Because you illegaly use our private API with licensed music content. All not Public domain content on musescore.com is licensed by major music publishers (Alfred, EMI, Sony, etc.). Distribute licensed music content from Musescore.com for free you violate their rights. Therefore, in pre-trial procedure, I suggest you close the following resources: • https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader (and all your forks and mirrors) • https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/391931-musescore-downloader https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/391931-musescore-downloade... Otherwise, I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content. *Thanks,* Max Chistyakov P.S. You can always download Public Domain content for free from musescore.com. Interesting facets: Illegally using a private API with public documentation? Somebody seems to have skimped on the authorization in their API. Pre-trial procedure? Let's use our big words!

mcguire 5y ago
Some additional quotes from the thread: "To suggest that taking an extra 15 seconds to create an account is far too much of an inconvenience is out of balance with the millions of dollars and thousands of hours that have been spent for there to be anything to be able to download at all. "Again, MuseScore is a community that is a balance of give and take and invest and share... not simply take." The irony is strong. "When it comes to copyrighted works, the way this is handled is not only not within our control, it also influences the licensing structures and mechanisms we are able to provide on the site as a whole. We understand very deeply the various forms of CC licensing beyond simply CC-0, but are unable to provide such variants on a site that also distributes copyrighted works. These conditions are dictated by rights holders of copyrighted works." Translation: they cannot let you use CC licenses because the RIAA told them not to.
- mcguire 5y ago
  And I'll just leave this here for future reference: "Upon further investigation, it became clear that Wenzheng Tang is a Chinese national, but not resident in China. As a guest in his current country, his residency status is predicated on a number of conditions, one of which is not violating the law. "If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country. "This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his - Fuck 学习强国, which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received." This is from workedintheory; the comment has been edited.
  - rathernotsay 5y ago
    Just to be clear, workedintheory here is Daniel Ray, Muse Group's Head of Strategy, who intentionally committed the entire musescore dataset to MuseScore's github repo (with a number of other engineers there) when UltimateGuitar bought them. How far to have fallen from their ideals, to be threatening someone else with physical harm for continuing the work they themselves started.

mcguire 5y ago

Some additional quotes from the thread: "To suggest that taking an extra 15 seconds to create an account is far too much of an inconvenience is out of balance with the millions of dollars and thousands of hours that have been spent for there to be anything to be able to download at all. "Again, MuseScore is a community that is a balance of give and take and invest and share... not simply take." The irony is strong. "When it comes to copyrighted works, the way this is handled is not only not within our control, it also influences the licensing structures and mechanisms we are able to provide on the site as a whole. We understand very deeply the various forms of CC licensing beyond simply CC-0, but are unable to provide such variants on a site that also distributes copyrighted works. These conditions are dictated by rights holders of copyrighted works." Translation: they cannot let you use CC licenses because the RIAA told them not to.

mcguire 5y ago
And I'll just leave this here for future reference: "Upon further investigation, it became clear that Wenzheng Tang is a Chinese national, but not resident in China. As a guest in his current country, his residency status is predicated on a number of conditions, one of which is not violating the law. "If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country. "This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his - Fuck 学习强国, which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received." This is from workedintheory; the comment has been edited.
- rathernotsay 5y ago
  Just to be clear, workedintheory here is Daniel Ray, Muse Group's Head of Strategy, who intentionally committed the entire musescore dataset to MuseScore's github repo (with a number of other engineers there) when UltimateGuitar bought them. How far to have fallen from their ideals, to be threatening someone else with physical harm for continuing the work they themselves started.