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Everyone I know playing beatsaber has the modded version :p

Beat Saber and Meta aren't responsible for that.

You won't get sued for that just like singing Taylor Swift in the shower is permissible.

I mean they are. They allow hundreds of thousands of players to sideload a modded APK in using their developer mode. This is detectable but they tacitly allow it because it sells a lot of copies of the game and the headset.

And I am thankful they do!

My web browser lets me pirate music, but Mozilla doesn't get sued for that.

There's zero liability for Beat Saber or Meta here. People distributing the pirated music would be liable.

MegaUpload got in some trouble for file sharing fwiw, so it's not impossible

MegaUpload was unarguably distributing content.

They host the files. Beat saber does not.

Good point

I know, I'm just saying that a big part of what makes beat saber fun (to me) is in playing fan made songs.

The RIAA is the biggest detriment to any music based games success. Either you pay lots of money for every additional song or most the player base are pirates.

Maybe someday one will be released with Spotify, YT Music, and Amazon Music integrations. Advertising that you just need to connect your accounts and can use anything. But I'm sure there are a lot of people working to make sure that never happens.

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