Hardstyle and Deadmau5

Has anyone listened to hardstyle at all? I only heard of it because Deadmau5 criticized an artist in the genre for allegedly stealing his chord progression (I use allegedly for a good reason).

It's kind of ridiculous for him to accuse people of that considering there are only a certain amount of notes in music to begin with and traditionally, chords are 3 or more notes played at the same time. There are also power chords, which are 2 notes played at the same time but those are strictly intervals (in fact, on guitar, that's how the corresponding number is read).

It's not like Deadmau5 is using a chord progression that's brand spanking new considering how old music is. It kind of disappoints me that he thought this considering his job.

Here is a link.

http://edm.com/blog/deadmau5-wildstylez

Even with melodic content potentially being copyrightable, there still seem to be a lot of loop holes. In the end it's kind of hard to justify something like that. A case that comes to play is Joe Satriani accusing coldplay of ripping off a riff from one of his songs. I don't know much about the case in general and I don't like coldplay to begin with so I honestly don't care, but I do know that Joe settled out of court.

Deadmau5 needs to go to therapy though. Another controversial thing he did was pounce on Porter Robinson for (seemingly) saying that a club he played at in Miami was the best crowd. Deadmau5 played at that same club and he noticed people texting and doing all sorts of stuff other than dance to his music. Now I will come right out and say I don't like porter robinson at all. He disrespected a well known artist that changed my life completely but I do have to stick up for the guy on this. I'll see if I can find an article.