The Dink Network

Not in a practical sense (the RIAA death squad isn't going to drag me into the street and shoot me for downloading a MIDI pack with instrumentals of three oldies) but technically.

I mean, how strong is a music copyright anyway? Do you have to change a certain percentage of the sheet music to make a song "original"? Or are instrumentals always legal?

I don't think recording midis is ever illegal, unless the original song was already available in midi format (and even then I'm not sure).

The midi song can never match the original high quality sound version anyway. If I buy some sheet music, play it on my synthesizer and record that into a midi I can spread it as much as I like.

Copyrights are also applied a bit different when the lyrics are left out (at least here in canada its different). It becomes a gray zone to prove its the same song, so the record companies only go after lyric copy.
Anyhow, they can feel free to sue us for every cent these dmods sell for.

Well, that's that. EAT IT, METALLICA!

MUAHAHAHAH! IM BREAKING THE ALL CAPS RULE AND NO ONE WILL EVER READ THIS!

what makes you so sure

You have to show respect for dead threads hell7fire1.

When staff decide to close threads they should put a RIP and the date in the last post.