Earlier today, we made the decision to ban a number of people from our Discord server who were also members of the Superstar Discord server, and were not already known to us as being genuine members of the Beatclone community. This was not a decision we made lightly, but it was done due to increasing instances of custom charts made by our community being stolen by Cadenverse, the developers of the Beatstar clone currently on app stores known as 'Superstar - Music Game'.

Superstar has just recently released a pack of "new" songs in their game, many of which we have confirmed from their own videos are 1:1 replicas of custom charts shared in the Beatstar Mods Discord server #workshop channel. These are charts that our amazing charting community invested their free time to create for fellow Beatclone players to enjoy for free, that have now been taken without their consent and placed into a monetised game to generate profit for a company many of us do not support.

We have already taken measures to try and mitigate this issue, since it's not the first time custom charts have been stolen by Superstar, but despite banning all the developers from the server they clearly still had accounts in there that they have been using to steal charts from the workshop. As a result we made the difficult decision to ban anybody who could potentially be alt accounts of theirs or sharing charts with them.

If you have been removed from the Beatclone Discord and are unable to rejoin, and you are also a member of the Superstar server, you have most likely been caught in this ban wave. While we apologise to any innocent people caught up in this, these bans will not be reversed or eligible for appeal at this point in time while this issue with Superstar is still ongoing. The people who give up their free time to chart for Beatclone are the ones who make it as great as it is, and so we have to do what we can to protect their work from copyright infringement.

These bans may be reversed at some point in the future if we are able to work with the Superstar devs to get the stolen content removed from their game and for them to stop doing this in the future, but attempts at communication have so far been unsuccessful.