Pirated Software

CrunkNationEnt

All Killa, No Filla!
Earlier this year I turned over a new leaf! I dumped all of my pirated software and sounds.

Since then I've bought Cubase 6.5, FLStudio 10, Studio One Artist, and Reason 6 and been using free/demo vst's and sounds.

Question: Why is it so much more difficult to install Software that you purchase, than pirated software!?

You would think it would be smooth sailing, but after having to restore my operating sytem ... It took me damn near a whole day to reload all that shit, lol! Plus getting all the the 2 dongles authorized, it was a pain in the ass.

You'd think it would be easier...Anyone else notice this?
 
Yeah DRM does as much damage as the bootleggers.

Same with moves.

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a lot of people actually buy software only to end up using cracked versions due to problems with dongles and such. only recently i tried to install the cubase le posted up here a while back and it wouldnt work at all. i just said fuq it in the end..
 
Not all software is a pita to register but yes a lot of it is. It would be nice if the process was more streamlined and some companies get that. I remember the nightmare I had trying to register Addictive Drums but they have recently updated their registration process and its much easier and it happens during the install. The initial install takes a while to get it going with the new authorizer but once I got it going to add soundbanks and stuff to it takes maybe 5 minutes and its all automatic. IK Multimedia stuff is fairly smooth too but it would be nice if you could put in many authorizations at once rather than one by one. NI is fairly smooth too. Actually I think the main pita autorization is Reason's ignition key and I hear things like this about dongles in general. I choose not to buy anymore dongled software due to this.
 
I hate it when a company that pleaded with me to pay for it's software rather than to get it for free turns around and decides it will now give that shit away to other people for free.
 
In my experience most of the pain is due to a corrupt or at least bloated set of registry hives under WinDo$e. Clean OS install or at least a good registry clean with C-r-a-p-C-l-e-a-n-e-r generally fixes these problems. there are some real curly problems that comes with registering WinDo$e sw too - I had an issue reinstalling Office 2003 that regional tech support did not have a clue about how to fix. I eventually gave up and resintalled the OS from scratch, and did all updates before installing Office 2003 and the problem vanished; iotw the problem was a installation sequence problem caused by M$ itself

PITA was C-Labs Notator on the Atari ST - it was designed to only run on black and white monitors, but could be coerced to run on a colour (if you call 5 colours (RGB black and white) and 18 colours colour) by a little fudging with the power at start up - sometimes it would boot sometimes it wouldn't and this was super duper dongle powered with a dongle and a MIDI channel multiplexer (4 MIDI outs instead of 1) and then the add-on unitor to give you a total of 6 midi outs (1 blissful 128 independent channels of MIDI) and 2 MIDI ins as well SMPTE time code generation/synching
 
In my experience most of the pain is due to a corrupt or at least bloated set of registry hives under WinDo$e. Clean OS install or at least a good registry clean with C-r-a-p-C-l-e-a-n-e-r generally fixes these problems. there are some real curly problems that comes with registering WinDo$e sw too - I had an issue reinstalling Office 2003 that regional tech support did not have a clue about how to fix. I eventually gave up and resintalled the OS from scratch, and did all updates before installing Office 2003 and the problem vanished; iotw the problem was a installation sequence problem caused by M$ itself

I use to do that all the time with my tower before it never powered on again
I just every once in a while wipe the hard drive and install a fresh copy of Windows XP
as I had a second hard drive with all my valuable stuff on it and a external hard drive with more valuable stuff

I believe ppl need to keep a separate music/studio computer and separate internet surfing/random software downloading computer
and don't surf porn sites on your music computer

I have put fresh copies of XP on many of ppl's computer only to find out that they had been on porn sites getting all kind of viruses because they had no virus protection on their computer

it's like having sex with 10,000 hookers without a condom

now I don't work on ppl's computer anymore or teach ppl how to use their computer is was a nice little side hustle
but I did learn keep two separate computers from that experience

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I have put fresh copies of XP on many of ppl's computer only to find out that they had been on porn sites getting all kind of viruses because they had no virus protection on their computer

i usually write down a list of software then tell them to jump on Ninite, that takes care of the rest.

anytime i test a program then delete it the first thing i do is run regedit and delete the registry folder for the software manually, then delete the application data anything in program files left behind. after that i run ccleaner and it usually sorts any further problems.
 
I can't relate. Most of this stuff is not hard if you carefully read the instructions. (not jabbing at anyone but this is the most common mistake). Watching people update from PT Le to PT10 is hilarious on PC. I will admit update S1 Artist to S1 Pro was a little weird.
 
Tone I agree with the separate computer thing, it doesn't only just work for keeping out nastiness it is good for discipline as well.
 
PITA was C-Labs Notator on the Atari ST - it was designed to only run on black and white monitors, but could be coerced to run on a colour (if you call 5 colours (RGB black and white) and 18 colours colour) by a little fudging with the power at start up - sometimes it would boot sometimes it wouldn't and this was super duper dongle powered with a dongle and a MIDI channel multiplexer (4 MIDI outs instead of 1) and then the add-on unitor to give you a total of 6 midi outs (1 blissful 128 independent channels of MIDI) and 2 MIDI ins as well SMPTE time code generation/synching

Damn Atari dongles!

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The people who always do the right stuff, in this instance actually buying software and not pirating it always gets stabbed in the back and get the worse deal out of it. Find this so relevant when dealing with computer games to such a ball ache to install them the legit way but if you pirate them its 10x easier.
 
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