musescore-downloader

I did some basic digging and this is at best a misrepresentation[1]. The original email appears to indicate they intended to contact CCP authorities. The inference I took is that they believed the developer was in China. Later they stated that violation of law in Canada could result in revocation of visa. So "threated to have someone deported" is maybe a stretch, "tortuted" is pretty untrue. The github issue appears to show a pretty reasonable attempt by both parties to move forward. 1. https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu...

I love this kind of behind-the-scenes, in-the-weeds video, and it's well done. Unfortunately, the incident with a Muse Group director openly blackmailing an open source developer [1] [2], threatening to have him deported to China while specifically calling out his public criticism of the CCP with a disgusting "who knows how he may be received"—well, to say that this incident leaves a bitter mark in my memory would be an understatement. I am happy to be using other free software for my engraving and playback needs, and with Tenacity just recently having published its first stable release, I'm eager to drop Audacity, too. Truth be told, I was never a heavy MuseScore user, but I have used Audacity regularly for decades. This turn saddens me, but it matters to me how those I support use their power, and threatening someone's life over an audi

Looks like HN strips certain parts of the URL -- the comment I mean to link directly is https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/130#is... >Thanks. >Rather than money, more importantly, I need good lawyers for copyright, immigration status / status of political refugee Context: the Audacity owners threatened to doxx this Chinese expat dev's online politics to the Chinese government, as discussed in several threads (don't think I've found all of them), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902546 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/audacitys-new-owner-...

https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu... wow

Unrelated to this particular scandal and its (likely?) resolution, but, if I were them, I'd immediately fire the guy who was essentially threatening to torture/kill someone in a GitHub issue a few days ago over an alleged copyright infringement dispute (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891005). Then maybe they can start moving past the last few months of chaos. He's "Head of Strategy", though, so doubtful anything will happen. [Latest updates to the story below] A supposedly leaked statement from their "Chief Product Officer", possibly suggesting the death threat is officially approved: >We put a lot of effort to neutralize his code, and spent a lot of $ and time for this. His actions are total copyright infringement. So I suppose none of us should worry about his feelings. Response from the threatened author: >If the statement is r

The original notice: Hi, I'm Musescore developer. You need to takedown this repository: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader and any other your public repositories with same code. Because you illegaly use our private API with licensed music content. All not Public domain content on musescore.com is licensed by major music publishers (Alfred, EMI, Sony, etc.). Distribute licensed music content from Musescore.com for free you violate their rights. Therefore, in pre-trial procedure, I suggest you close the following resources: • https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader (and all your forks and mirrors) • https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/391931-musescore-downloade... Otherwise, I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the

HN seems to strip the URL fragment. Direct link: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu... Edit: the comment contents were deleted. They are still visible via the GitHub edit history. Here's an archive, just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20210719115639if_/https://github...

Alongside the Audacity changes, the Muse group has also performed some highly questionable actions in the context of MuseScore, such as falsely claiming that a downloader script was illegal, and that they owned copyright of all sheet music on their site. Going as far as to state that they will "cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content." [0]. Unfortunately, I don't believe the general users of audacity will ever hear about the groups actions, and will continue to use the audacity without knowledge of what has changed. [0]: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5

That doesn't excuse the behaviour from MuseGroup. They essentially were trying to do same thing that rights holders tried to do to youtube-dl, with (somehow) even less standing, since MuseGroup does not even represent the rights holders in this case. Fraudulent DMCA claims and scare tactics ("Information about users who use this extension on musescore.com will be shared with local police"[1]) are inexcusable regardless of how they are justified. [1] https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/42#iss...

Yeah, judging from the MuseScore owners' behavior towards musescore-downloader, the situation with Audacity will only get worse from here. https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5 https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/42#iss...