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First of all I am surfing FP for the first time on my Blackberry Storm which is...AAaawsome! Anyway I don't see what the big deal about cracked software unless you're selling it. Same rule as drugs.
Here is my take on it.
When I first got into software, I tried some cracked software...it totally corrupted my computer and after the third of fourth time doing a fresh wipe and a new Windows install, I gave up on cracked software.
Why bother with it?
Also, in a sense, people who are gluttonous about their software pirating get nowhere with it. When you buy something, with hard earnings, you treat software, as if it were like a hardware unit. With hardware, you have made a substantial investment and committed yourself to learning it inside out. With software pirating, you exhaust the presets and go on to the next pirated instrument.
However, when you pay for something, you tend to respect it more, and you apply that level of commitment to it.
If people would just refuse to pirate software, and buy themselves the choice gear that they can afford, and stick with it, they will get much further than having 500 pirated vsts on their computer and not a clue what to do with them past preset previewing. Same with a host, etc.
I think the lack of commitment on the part of the person that pirates software, because they have made no investment in it, accounts for 90% of all the stupid questions on this site.
Just my $0.02
Stop pirating software, and earn your way.
If you want to be a software glutton, do what I did...
1. Make your music habit pay for itself.
2. Become a reviewer for a magazine and get companies to send you stuff for free.
Besides, the amount of work that goes into these products is serious enough to deserve being paid for IMO. I wouldn't want to do a week's work and check my bank account to discover that someone had helped themselves to the money I had worked hard for.
How in da world would anybody figure out dat some1 uses cracked vst's or Daw's or Samples? It's Impossible right?
this is where i disagree.
some products are heavily overpriced for something that can be distributed to as many people as possible at almost no cost. that's the thing with software (especially software that is distributed through digital means) once it has been developed there is a lot of money to be made back as there are little (or no) physical costs to incur.
when companies are realeasing statements like this http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech...-software-a-commercial-developers-view-173755 it really makes me want to just go ahead and pirate their stuff.
This is a circular, and ridiculous, argument... the reason they are "overpriced" is because they have to make up for pirating.
Besides there is more to costs for a company than just physical distribution... how about overhead? Employees salaries/benefits?
I'm assuming you're on this site because you make music... well I can also download Mp3s, which cost you nothing to distribute, so are you also saying you don't want anyone to ever pay you for your music?
Makes no sense.
So wait when Cubase 1.0 came out it was 20 bucks??? NOPE!!!
software is always outrageously overpriced, take Windows OS... how much was it when it first came out, all buggy and sh!t??? Too damn much!!!
And what about the supposed uncrackable softwares like Sequoia??? It still costs what 3K??? No one can crack it, but it still costs 3K... whys that??? Has anyone cracked PT 8??? or PT HD??? still costs a ton of money... granted they come with hardware... but even then the software is still very expensive alone....
Software is priced high to make a profit... plain and simple... if all companies wanted to do was break even, most software would probably cost half of what it costs now... All they need money for is development which is basically paying the programmers... they dont pay for testing anymore... thats what open-betas are for... and maybe facility maintenance and equipment... so your argument if flatly wrong!
This is a circular, and ridiculous, argument... the reason they are "overpriced" is because they have to make up for pirating.
Besides there is more to costs for a company than just physical distribution... how about overhead? Employees salaries/benefits?
I'm assuming you're on this site because you make music... well I can also download Mp3s, which cost you nothing to distribute, so are you also saying you don't want anyone to ever pay you for your music?
Makes no sense.
Its shocking to me that just 10-20 years ago musicians were willing to (and did) spend thousands and thousands of dollars for music hardware, and yet today's crop of "musicians" isn't willing to spend 1/10th that cost (or less) for something that can do 1,000 times more.
I have no problem with u using a cracked version of something to try it out before you buy it, but if you use cracked software with no intention of ever paying for it, you need to face facts: you are lazy, greedy, and do not take your craft seriously at all. Period.