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: In fact, what has been done that's illegal here? People use others midi's, gfx, wavs etc, but are they not public domain? There may be one or two exceptions, but generally speaking (unless someone tries to sell their work) nothing illegal is being done.

Thats not entirely correct, even though you wont use get money from using it, it is still copyrighted material, which you can't use without permission from the copyright holders..