Ripoff Alert!

[kitsunebeolnet]

This video: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... d_id=72029

Is a ripoff of Kusoyaro's 'Ugly girls of Anime' - http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... php?v=3631

[Malificus]

What are you saying? Are they the same song, artist, anime, or what seems to be insinuated, the same AMV?

Well? Is that the case, or is the "ripoff" just unoriginal?

[Scintilla]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, IT'S <b>NOT</b> BY "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC


That is all.

[kitsunebeolnet]

What are you saying? Are they the same song, artist, anime, or what seems to be insinuated, the same AMV?

Well? Is that the case, or is the "ripoff" just unoriginal?

The song and more than half of the footage is a direct copy from the original video. The 'creator' just dropped in a few new scenes over the original video.

[bum]

I copied the whole song of ranta from teh guy called darude

[Al'x]

They don't have the same anime used. =|

That old one isn't up for download though so who can tell? =\

[Scintilla]

That old one isn't up for download though so who can tell? =\

I found it a few years ago on my file-sharing utility of chioce. It's gotten around, believe me.

[x_rex30]

They don't have the same anime used. =|

That old one isn't up for download though so who can tell? =\

I haven't seen the so called "Rip Off" video yet, but here is a download of the other one.

http://www.lonewolfe.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=29

[FurryCurry]

The song and more than half of the footage is a direct copy from the original video. The 'creator' just dropped in a few new scenes over the original video.

This is precisely the case. I have the original, and it's just as you said.

[devilmaykickass]

Wow...that's rediculous.

[Kusoyaro]

My computer at work won't play the video, so I can't watch it to comment on it, but I do find this rather amusing. If a guy wants to rip off a 6 year old video that I did in one night, I say go for it
Also, if you pay attention at the beginning, his audio is cut off, just like mine, because I used a broken mp3 that I found on my college network

[Ashyukun]

Doubt I'll be able to say for certain whether or not it is a ripoff of it or not since it's been so long since I've seen Hisen's.... but I have to admit, having 'Unknown' as one of her video sources doesn't lend itself towards disproving this possibility...

[FurryCurry]

Moot point since Kusoyaro essentially gave permission for the footage use a couple posts ago.

This thread is now about how lame the ripoff artist is, and how much the changes they made to the video suck.

[Ashyukun]

Actually, it would be more along the lines of 'absolution' than 'permissions', given it's after the fact. But, semantics aside... I think it's just bad form to have not bothered even figuring out what the 'unknown' shows in the appropriated footage were (DNA^2, and MI were both pretty easy to pick out) or getting the artist even remotely right on the audio.

[serDouglass]

I watched the video (which reminds me, I never got around to leaving an Op for Kusoyaro...), and yeah, it's a total rip off. They took Kusoyaro's music, his clips, moved them around a bit and threw in a few rather ill fitting ones of their own, along with some MS paint overlays.