But, you are selling them. They may be set to a name your price option until your allotted free downloads run their course for the month (or you pay Bandcamp to grant you more) but it's not like all of this is set permanently free.

It's great you came to defend yourself though.

No I will admit that, but there isn't alot of other ways for me to get my stuff out there that's the only reason I did bandcamp. If people would like to take it and host it themselves off site in forums, mega etc I'd be more than happy for that to happen (just give me credit for the mixing thats all I ever ask for).

I can take the downloads away at the end of every 200 free credits, I did think about that but bandcamp don't make it easy for things like that to happen...so i'd have to reupload it at the beginning of every month. All I can do is apolagise and tell everyone as I have been doing, please don't pay and wait for next months credits.

Really didn't want to appear like im trying to con or skin money out of people, I also have an updated Resident Evil 1 soundtrack I've spent years tweaking, theres just no where else to hand it out in high qaulity for free.

:Edit: Also yes mate, I stand by my work I wanted to come clear things up think I needed to here.

Would Youtube and Soundcloud an alternative?

https://creators.soundcloud.com/

I am on soundcloud actually, but once again I dont have alot of money and on a free account so I used the space to show off my actual tracks (those are also free on my bandcamp, all my stuff is)......but as for youtube? Never, ever again.

I was on there before all this happened, youtube let Warner Bros, random indian / chinese companies and even some normal everyday people copyright claim it all. Most of the Unreal Tournament 1 / 2004 an indian guy claimed, warnerbros tried to do things like "Go Down" claiming is was made by Moby of all people. A chinese firm tried to get control of my OWN album....to which youtube's response to ALL THIS was:

"we think THEY are correct. please hand out all your personal information to them and sort it out between the 2 of you.

I deleted my account not soon after :/. Im hopeing the minute I get some proper income again to pay for a bandcamp to make sure there is more free downloads for sure, it's just until that point the best i've been able todo was get on forums and post up a mega link ya know.

Is this what they mean by "clown world"? LMFAO, that guy.

It doesn't matter if you are selling them or not. If you do not have distribution rights, you are committing copyright infringement.

Further, you haven't remixed or remastered anything. For the MIDI-based soundtracks you are simply recording them with the use of a different sound bank, which you also do not appear to have commercial use licences for. For example you are using the Arachno soundfont for the System Shock soundtrack and the licencing information for the Arachno soundfont states:

"You're free to use Arachno SoundFont in any of your projects. But, please be aware that this bank is primarily distributed for private, non-commercial purposes only, as it uses portions from other authors. If you want to use it for commercial purposes, please obtain a written consent from the original authors credited in the Preset list and Copyright information and credits sections."

For the module based formats (which you erroneously refer to as "glorified MIDI files") such as the Unreal soundtrack, I hear no difference from the originals. All you appear to have done is played them back with some kind of resampler and/or filter, which is a feature that many audio players have built-in. You haven't even replaced the samples in the UMX files and yet you're trying to tack a credit for yourself on to them for simply recording them into PCM audio.

That is irrelevant however, as you don't have the rights to these pieces anyways. In addition you are trying to profit from them, which is going to give the rights holders more ammunition if they decide to file lawsuits against you.

Very well, I'll delete them then. I;m not about to fight a lynch mob for trying to hand out a few things. Sorry to offended you, please enjoy the other free ones online then. I'm sure you will attack those too now.

Lynch mob? I'm sorry but you don't get to feign innocence or vilify anyone when you're the one in the wrong.

If anything, you should be thanking everyone who posted here for drawing attention to the matter before you ended up in court.

Being ignorant is one thing, but this arrogantly written post only tells us that you clearly don't understand how these things works. A golden rule is that you shouldn't use original names or trademarked names you don't own or haven't licensed in any artwork either, especially commercial ones. Doing so implies official ties.

However, it's your prerogative if you rather want to be immature about it and turn it around like we're the ones doing some dirty work.

I'll say this much in regard to the potential removal of them - since it's clear some people have paid you for them already, just set them to non-public view.

The crappier move on your part would be to delete them and prevent those people from further accessing what they paid for.

I've seen other people on Bandcamp do similar for a number of reasons - Adrian Moore, the composer for the Framed games, once had a sampler of his work up on his account that he stupidly deleted once he secured a deal with a vinyl distributor. Another more infamous example is industry legend Grant Kirkhope - he used to sell some of his Rare soundtracks (the Banjo-Kazooie stuff) but rather abruptly set those albums to private when things shifted in regard to that series and who holds a say in who can sell what and where they could sell it.

Anyway, if the outcome of removing them is a serious thing and you aren't openly forced to delete them in the event claims and complaints are filed, then just set it all to private. Don't screw over the people who paid you, regardless if what they paid you was only enough to cover the cost of a sandwich.

Likewise, if your serious aim is to go into mastering audio, keep at it and pursue it. I know one composer who does his own mastering personally but I've also seen a lot of people ask him about the mastering aspect to know that not every composer is confident enough to do it themselves, or understands that aspect, to the point that there would be a demand (small or not) for people offering such services well on into the future.

We just potentially saved you from a heap of legal fees, trouble, and jail time.