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Originally Posted by sgt fury
i dont understand why Combat flight simulator 2 which is over 10 years old allows real weather as an option extra cloud sets and has over the years had uploaded by the fans the real sounds of almost all the aircraft present in WW2,they simply went out with the recording equipment to the airshows and recorded them start up, etc,same goes for gun sound whats the big deal? so why cant the developers here do the same!!??  |
Copyrights and royalty fees.
It's one thing for me to record sounds from an airshow and upload a mod because nobody can hold me responsible thanks to internet anonymity, but it's a completely different thing for a software publishing company to do the same and have lawyers knocking on the door.
Selling memorabilia and sound recordings is usually what pays for the expenses of keeping restored warbirds in an airworthy state, so i doubt the associations maintaining them would take kindly to having their aircraft sounds used without permission. Sure, these are non-profit groups of volunteers but that doesn't mean they don't need money, it's very expensive to keep a 70 year old engine running when there's no supply of spare parts.