[Starsector Mods][0.95a] Combat Alarm Sounds mod v1.4

What license are those sounds released under?  If you don't have the legal right or permission granted to use them, those sounds are not legal to distribute.

Are you really nitpicking that?  I mean, I understand all the legal implications, but this is a mod for christ's sake.

(also, legally, since this is a mod and isn't sold for profit, the law can't really touch it if you're being that picky)

-I don't think you need the flux alarm until 85-90%, and even then not as piercing as you have now; most players will be paying attention to their flux levels intensely, and will really only need a subtle reminder they're high.
-The Hull warning sound is pretty good, as sometimes you'll notice the flux moving up and down, and completely forget about the hull. The problem is you've used the Halo shield-down alarm - I keep thinking the hull is going to regenerate. Maybe make the flux override make that sound, and find some generic alert sound from freesounds for the hull?
-The high damage alarm is brilliant - that is really useful for when you get unexpectedly flanked.
-The engine disabled alarm is a godsend - several times I'll have no idea what's going on when my ship just dies in the water. Having a sound that says it's happened is pretty useful. What I wouldn't mind however is have the engine alarm sustained until the engines come back: currently the alarm sounds quickly and can be overlooked (much like the flameout message), and having a sustained sound would be really useful in this instance.
-Also, wouldn't mind a weapon disabled sound effect as well in the same vein as above.
-Is it possible for music to play when you die? I just have an amusing thought of the Team Fortress 2 'You've been dominated' theme or Solid Snake's "death' theme playing when you get blown up.
-Also, if you move to another ship, will you still have the sounds for THAT ship?

EDIT: HA HA Alfonzo, Master of Using the Tab Key.

(also, legally, since this is a mod and isn't sold for profit, the law can't really touch it if you're being that picky)

In legal term, this is called a Load of CR*P. Or do you also believe it is legal to distribute a movie via torrent because it isn't sold for profit??? Of course even when assuming those sounds weren't released with some permissive license it is still very unlikely that EA will come after this mod, since it doesn't affect EA games sales or image in any shape or form. But they still have valid ground to file a DMCA against it if they wanted to.

This is pretty amazing. However, may I provide some input?

-I don't think you need the flux alarm until 85-90%, and even then not as piercing as you have now; most players will be paying attention to their flux levels intensely, and will really only need a subtle reminder they're high.
-The Hull warning sound is pretty good, as sometimes you'll notice the flux moving up and down, and completely forget about the hull. The problem is you've used the Halo shield-down alarm - I keep thinking the hull is going to regenerate. Maybe make the flux override make that sound, and find some generic alert sound from freesounds for the hull?
-The high damage alarm is brilliant - that is really useful for when you get unexpectedly flanked.
-The engine disabled alarm is a godsend - several times I'll have no idea what's going on when my ship just dies in the water. Having a sound that says it's happened is pretty useful. What I wouldn't mind however is have the engine alarm sustained until the engines come back: currently the alarm sounds quickly and can be overlooked (much like the flameout message), and having a sustained sound would be really useful in this instance.
-Also, wouldn't mind a weapon disabled sound effect as well in the same vein as above.
-Is it possible for music to play when you die? I just have an amusing thought of the Team Fortress 2 'You've been dominated' theme or Solid Snake's "death' theme playing when you get blown up.
-Also, if you move to another ship, will you still have the sounds for THAT ship?

EDIT: HA HA Alfonzo, Master of Using the Tab Key.

-The sound that plays when above 90% flux is "independent", so to speak, of the other flux warnings. Muting flux_warning_1 in sounds.json will leave only the >90% flux sound playing. I often find myself unable to pay attention to my flux while in combat, probably because I always keep my battle size at max.
-Hah, that's a fair point, I'll probably have to do something about it.
-I find it infinitely useful as well. Fights between really large fleets can get quite chaotic, which I find really cool.
-I thought about it. Perhaps I'll change it in v1.1.
-I really don't think that would work very well, since a disabled, say, Hellbore Cannon, would probably play the same sound as a disabled LMG. It would probably just turn into a source for more audio clutter than help you.
-I thought about that as well; I won't include it in the "official" mod since it doesn't fit my original vision for it, but here's the script anyway EDIT: no longer works 
-Yes, it checks the state of whatever ship you're piloting.

Regarding the sounds and their licenses:
If I have to change them to royalty free sounds, I absolutely will. I just want to say that all sound files for battlefield and halo are very easy to find and download (literally a google search away). I'm not saying my mod can't get taken down by a DMCA strike, I'm saying that if it was a realistic possibility, I probably wouldn't have been able to use those sounds in the first place. EDIT: no longer an issue

I probably wouldn't have been able to use those sounds in the first place.

With the internet, finding something that is illegal to use, seems to become easier and easier.. I found out the hard way.

How about worrying for it, if the time comes? At least I am guessing even if the worst comes, they will just request it to be taken down. I still feel EA are humans... *looks at their new games* ... probably..

(also, legally, since this is a mod and isn't sold for profit, the law can't really touch it if you're being that picky)

In legal term, this is called a Load of CR*P. Or do you also believe it is legal to distribute a movie via torrent because it isn't sold for profit??? Of course even when assuming those sounds weren't released with some permissive license it is still very unlikely that EA will come after this mod, since it doesn't affect EA games sales or image in any shape or form. But they still have valid ground to file a DMCA against it if they wanted to.

This definitely falls under "fair use." No need to scare people just for the sake of scaring people.

This definitely falls under "fair use." No need to scare people just for the sake of scaring people.

I'm not trying to "scare" people, but to provide a friendly reminder that there are laws so they don't act surprised if they sometimes get DMCAed. It is indeed so extremely unlikely in the present case that the risk can be considered non-existent, but maybe the next time he takes assets from another license it won't be that unlikely.

Also this doesn't fit Fair Use at all:

Examples of fair use in United States copyright law include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, and scholarship.

Fair Use is is to allow the use of copyrighted material for a purpose different than the original material, so that it doesn't "compete" with the copyright owner's product. This is a case of sounds assets from a game used for the exact same purpose in another game, it's the perfect case where Fair Use DOESN'T apply.

Again, nothing will happen to this mod even if it keeps using those sounds, but it is good to remind people that just because you can find something on Internet easily doesn't make it free to use anyway they want.

Again, nothing will happen to this mod even if it keeps using those sounds, but it is good to remind people that just because you can find something on Internet easily doesn't make it free to use anyway they want.

My point exactly. There is no reason to continually post on other people's mods that they're all going to be sued for copyright infringement. When you do this, you're not being helpful, you're just being a jerk.

Besides, there's plenty of Star Wars/Star Trek/ game mods out there which *no one* has ever been sued for. So I don't think it's even really a danger.

Seems like this is no longer an issue here, though, so that's good