UPDATE: NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming Creators Thwart Illegal Album Sale

Public Urged: “Do Not Fall for It”

UPDATE: Problem solved. Stevo Bortz tells us the website LegalSounds.com has taken down the Lucid Dreaming album, originally for sale on the website. The original story follows below.

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Today much of the NiGHTS community, including several who worked on the recently released NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming remix album, was rocked amid allegations a website was selling what was originally the free to download work.

The call to arms was originally sounded by album director Stevo Bortz, who was not happy to learn the website LegalSounds.com offered the album for purchase, and are pocketing those profits.

“Me and 40 other people didn’t work for two years to make a free album just to have some shady Russian pirates line their pockets a bit,” Bortz said on his Twitter account.

Much of that same sentiment was echoed elsewhere, including on the front page of NiGHTSIntoDreams.com, where site admin and album associate producer Niyazi Sonmez called for users to contact the website’s legal team and have it taken down.

“It’s certainly bad to steal commercial music but it’s ten times worse when someone steals and tries to sell FREE music,” Sonmez said. “DO NOT FALL FOR IT.”

For the moment, be advised to remain vigilant–it is against OCRemix’s Terms of Service to resell their music, so if you see something of theirs for sale, know that it’s being offered for free.

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Shan the hedgehog

Posted July 22, 2011 at 3:45 PM

WWWOOOOWWW!!!! SELLING FREE MUSIC!!! THAT’S LLLLLOOOWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

SA3 2011

Posted July 22, 2011 at 3:49 PM

Yeah I love OCremix they do great job and they have my full support! Some people just want to make money on others folishnes.

UltimaHedgie

Posted July 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM

Sounds like LegalSounds aren’t that Legal, huh?

Frankthehedgehog105

Posted July 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM

Damn it.I live in a place where evrybody buy or download pirated stuff(myself included) but this is really low

QuietGuy92

Posted July 22, 2011 at 4:30 PM

Whoever thought of the idea that illegally downloading music, even when it’s free, is considered “cool”, needs to go die in a fire.

A message to LegalSounds: FUCK YOU.
A message to OverClocked Remix: Give them hell. Especially after all the hard work you’ve done just for the sake of being fans. Lucid Dreaming is a beautiful album.

ChaoticFox

Posted July 22, 2011 at 5:01 PM

While this is a pretty stupid situation and I sympathize completely, I have to laugh at Sonmez’s comment. Profiting off of free stuff is 10x worse than straight up stealing profits from someone trying to make them? Fucking lol.

Level 99

Posted July 22, 2011 at 6:51 PM

Heya, Stevo here. Just an update on this: it appears as if the site has taken down the download page for the NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming album. Going to the link here gives an error now: http://www.legalsounds.com/download-mp3/nights–lucid-dreaming/album_481220

Thanks to everyone who contacted them for getting this rectified as soon as possible. And Tristan is right: no matter what we put out, everything from OverClocked ReMix will always be available online, for free, to everyone.