THIS. And also most of the time it means that the person gets royalties for the sampling... Maybe they do things differently in France and David Guetta got confused???

Oh, BEP, I used to respect your music so much back when you did memorable, substantial songs like "Where Is the Love" and "Shut Up," but now you've for some reason devolved into solely doing generic party songs

I still can't get over how monstrously overrated the song was. More surprising than it being stolen.

IGF is overrated anyway(decent but the fact that its the most downloaded song ever, I CANT) and David Guetta keeps recycling the beat...so

and they just realized it was "stolen" after more than year

"I Gotta Feeling" is so overated and I HATE IT!

To be honest, I Gotta Feeling wasn't really one of my fav songs of 2009, since it was overated and overplayed throughout the past year.

Even so, for The Black Eyed Peas to be accused by a couple of unknown acts for stealing it is just ridiculous.

Don't like TBEP or anything but doesn't this seem I don't know...fishy? I mean why wait until the song was immensely popular AND then sue? Why didn't they sue since the first time they heard that crap. Seems fishy to me

The world doesn't revolve around pop music.

THIS.

In any case, I hope this Bryan Pringles guy gets some form of compensation or whatever it is.

it's so generic that it sounds like stolen.

I feel bad for the members of the band that had no idea this was happening (I blame will.i.am. <--douche). But my question is, how the **** did they even come across this song? "Take a Dive" is soooo obscure, where/when did they here it? Same with Boom Dynamite, do they just listen to thousands of old random-ass songs to get "inspiration" ?

Why wait until now for this?

Anywayyss it was def. stolen if that song actually existed prior to IGF's production.

Real... I don't believe this
I mean now?! Not when it was slaying radio like crazy?
It's either true and they need money
or just need money

Exactly
makes no sense to me

Because a) these secrets always come out later
b) If they had of sued during the peak , and won , the label would have pulled all promo and cds off the shelves thus making less money for them to win in the lawsuit.

Now I know why I think the song sounds familiar.

They are just mad because IGF had a huge success.