SEGA creators' reactions to Judgement incident

News from 2019.03.13-15
Archived on 2019.03.15

Follow-up to Pierre Taki's arrest: SEGA creators react to the incident.

Tomoya Ohtani-san (SEGA/Sonic series Sound Creator) being shocked by the news, and had hard time thinking what to write about it.

マジか、ちょっとショックだな、、足袋屋の店主はどうなるんだ！

— 大谷 智哉 Tomoya Ohtani (@Ohtanitter) March 12, 2019

思うところあって書いてみたけどやっぱり消してを繰り返した日であった😞

— 大谷 智哉 Tomoya Ohtani (@Ohtanitter) March 13, 2019

Ohtani-san and Hideki Naganuma-san (Sound Creator for Sonic Rush, Jet Set Radio series etc.) unhappy about Pierre Taki's music being not playable anymore on music streaming sites.
As composers themselves, they must have stronger feelings about how music is being handled...

配信停止とのことで自分とこのデータみてみたら、Apple Musicでダウンロードしてあったアルバム中 Shangri-La だけ再生出来ない、何故？🤔 pic.twitter.com/1tloI9CkbH

— 大谷 智哉 Tomoya Ohtani (@Ohtanitter) March 15, 2019

Even if composers/musicians are arrested, the music they made has no crime.

— HIDEKI NAGANUMA｜長沼 英樹 (@Hideki_Naganuma) March 15, 2019

They have just stopped distributing Denki Groove's music today. #Spotify WTF.

— HIDEKI NAGANUMA｜長沼 英樹 (@Hideki_Naganuma) March 15, 2019

Daisuke Satou, Produver of Yakuza series makes a statement:

このまま終わらせはしない。
このままなかったものにはさせない。
いつか、必ず、復活させる。

— 佐藤大輔@龍が如くスタジオ/龍が如く4 好評発売中！ (@satod_cs1) March 13, 2019

"I won't let it end. I won't let it disappear like this. I will revive it at one point, for sure."


Discussion over restriction of works by a person who was arrested for committing crime continues.
Do you think one should handle the creators and their works separately?

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