I'm late. Yeah. But f*ck it.
You are the most ignorant person I have ever seen. Ever.
For literally every single point someone has made in here.
I don't care if you say "You can't compare music to something else blahblahblah" that's one part where you are completely missing the point.
Say you made your precious Elgato HD60 (seriously, humblebragging much?) and decide to mass produce it. That's the mixed mp3/flac/wav/ogg/whatever. Then there's the schematic that you can make them all based on. That's the master tracks. You could make something very SIMILAR to the Elgato just by finding parts that do something similar, i.e make similar sound tracks, but you likely won't be able to create the exact thing without the schematic.
Then say you allow a guy to have the schematic to make, say, an addon to it, like a cable extension or something idfk what you would put as an addon for an elgato probably nothing but
that's not the point. That would be licensing the master tracks. If he gave out the schematics to someone else, they can make the elgato if you so choose. Now, say they just wanted to look at the schematic. Just see HOW it was made, nothing else. That would be the person just listening to the stem.
You wouldn't want that schematic to be mass produced and publicly available, because then they could make the exact same product and sell that at a cheaper price, thus taking away money from YOU.
It's basically like this that people in music want to prevent :
They don't care what the majority's intentions are, and they don't care what you think of of the "musicians" who do that kind of thing, the point of the matter is
PEOPLE CAN DO IT, and they want to prevent that. They don't care if you just want to listen to it to appreciate it, they want to prevent the minority from doing that image.
And with them being fine with people listening to it in the game, it's because, as has been pointed out, that the songs were licensed for use in the game. They were not licensed for use for you to listen to on your computer. Like the guy being allowed to have the schematic for the addon. Having the device itself would be like a song being in the game. You could look at the parts on the inside, see how they were arranged and that kind of thing, but the fact of the matter is, it's not the original schematic, and thus,
not the original stems.Now please, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, don't f*cking nitpick holes in my comparison, because then you would be doing what you've been doing in this entire thread: Missing the damn point.