http://www.metafilter.com/tags/timbaland Posts tagged with 'timbaland' at MetaFilter. Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:54:41 -0800 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:54:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/59679/Timberland%2Daccused%2Dof%2Dhaving%2DAcidjazzed%2DEvening%2Dwithout%2Dpermission <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Timbaland_plagiarism_controversy">Timbaland accused of plagiarism</a> Mega-popular music producer Timbaland has been accused of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4KX7SkDe4Q">lifting the heart and soul of Nelly Furtado's "Do It"</a> from a C64 SID chiptune arrangement by <a href="http://amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=3045&detail=interview">GRG </a> of a MOD file, "AcidJazzed Evening," originally composed by Finnish music tracker <a href="http://www.fairlight.fi/tempest/">Janne Suni</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV2fTEeP6GM">Or maybe he was just repurposing his own "original" ringtone from MSN</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjFMoVyoCX0&mode=related&search=">Nerds get angry</a> and are <a href="http://thetimbalandchick.blogspot.com/2007/02/timbalands-response-to-do-it.html">dismissed as haters</a>. The <a href="ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/reed/tempest/tempest_-_acidjazzed_evening.mp3">original tune</a> is catchy, even as an MP3. It reminded me of the MOD collection I amassed in 1993, when <a href="http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/bonehead/696/modinfo.html">I could fit hours of music on a floppy disk</a>. My reminiscences took me to <a href="http://amp.dascene.net/home.php">Amiga Music Preservation</a> to try to reconstruct my old MOD collection from memory, but I failed. Maybe MP3 and AAC have made tracked music formats obsolete for most.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.59679 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:54:41 -0800 music plagiarism timbaland bugmuncher