Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160713122023/@comment-53539-20160719221430

As I said, people overreact... As you can see sampled, the issue is touchy.

Even if they do not use it, the mere suggestion brings out a reaction, thats why its best to keep it to yourself and not be the one who lets the ct out of the bag. If its said they use it and they do not in fact use it, the strike against their name is not going to disappear.

The guys at VO think our reaction to Pocaloid, as it "its banned", is an overreaction at times. If you were to go to the One Piece wikia and several others, they installed limitations on what they can and can't do for much the same reason. Even if a wiki is not totally against illegal stuff, it has to be seen to be. The OP wiki uses single frames from scanalations, but it is not allowed to use entire pages from said scans and replaces them with anime stills ASAP. The greater wikia staff allow this much... But they are not allowed to link to uploads of the anime onto youtube unless its official (Funimation sometimes does this of its translations).

In our case though... The problem is that Vocaloid itself is kinda different. Being an instrument, even the vocals are licensed. So if someone is using an illegal copy, the voice is not allowed to be used as well as the software. I don't know how far we can push our limits before the greater wiki staff would step in and say something... So the moment a producer is known to be a Pocaloid user, we have to break ties with them just in case. Hell... I'd argue about cover songs alone being an issue due to many not yet being in the public domain. Even "Happy Birthday" was not a public domain song until recently (even though this was a BS license as the company who owned the license did not originally produce the song and it existed before they did). :-/