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Yeah, some of the people who recycle every MIDI they find from MuseScore have laughably inaccurate or even downright wrong or unrecognizable arrangements. Like, there's one arrangement of the "Main Theme" from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where it's actually a messed up arrangement of Hedwig's Theme. The uploader probably didn't even notice.

I'm one of those YouTube piano transcribers who makes Synthesia-style videos out of my arrangements. Since all you need is a MIDI file, Synthesia or another graphical piano player, and an editing software, it's disappointing to see so many videos that simply took MIDI files from somewhere else. Many of these channels are actively earning money from using other people's MIDI files. That makes it harder for YouTubers who legitimately arrange their own music for every video to grow amidst these other channels.

I was wondering everyone's thoughts on this. Many video game cover videos have MIDIs that are just re-used from the ones that are uploaded here. Do you think it's wrong to get free views from the work of another arranger, or is this collection of MIDI files something that each arranger or video maker should use?