Great point! Just because you are downloading an app on a P2P based system doesn't mean you are illegally using the software. That is somethign I said before.
Evan Evans
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Great point! Just because you are downloading an app on a P2P based system doesn't mean you are illegally using the software. That is somethign I said before.
Evan Evans
I understand your point, but do NOT agree.Try not to be so quick to jump to conclusions. Einstein worked his whole life trying to prove certian theories. He never concluded anything. Some of his theories were later able to be tested and concluded using the scientific method. But he never PRESUMED to have CONCLUSIVE results unless he did!
Colin
. . . The price was fair and it was a major update. Miroslav Vitous, on the other hand -(which I would probably like to buy too) is an example of a great library which needs a price drop and a reworking IMHO. Dan Dean is very cool, takes care of his customers. Steinberg don't endear themselves to me - The Grand will probably never appear as Audio Unit! VSL are tops in support, and their prices are (mostly) very fair I think . . .
@mike connelly said:
I still don't quite get it. Why would someone that owns Vision need to download a copy?
Here's a different point of view by Brad Wardell of Stardock and Galactic Civilizations fame. As a game developer and publisher himself he has some insight into the business and he comes up with a very different conclusion:@Galleddrim said:
Commercial piracy is a vicious cycle. Pros rip off software because it's "too expensive," developers raise the price tag because they are losing money to pirates, and the pirates feel more justified in ripping of the developers, who will raise prices . . . etc. The developers are not doing anything wrong here. They are simply responding to the demands of a glitch in the free market and attempting to remain in business. This is why new PC games are running at $60 right now when they were $40 only a couple years ago. It is piracy-driven inflation.
A record producer I worked with - liked working with a lot actually - impressed me the most when, asked how we wre going to deal with a certain problem, said: "I'm not sure (yet)".Yeah, there'sa lot of confidence in that. It means, he is "like water" as Bruce Lee said. Able to form and change into whatever condition is currently applicable.
@William said:
I've noticed the same principle of productivity going downhill especially in relation to Emulator IV hardware running Miraslav Vitous which was so reliable and quick to use, compared to today's ultra finicky software samplers.
"it is indeed an incredible cheek to take money from someone for something half-finished" - Nigel Watson
You know what I thought the instant I read this?
GIGASTUDIO
There are ways for a developer to take this idea and use it to advantage. Such as Softimage 3D. The nearly complete version is freely available for download at the website. The only limitations are that that the file format it saves will not open on the professional version, and the render resolution is locked to just below broadcast quality. Otherwise it is fully funcional. This takes away the temptation for people to illigitimately acquire software, while at the same time ensuring that it cannot be used for commercial applications.
~Chris
@GTBannah said:
Now, I don't now how this type of DEMO-type protection would work for Sample Libraries, but I've seen DEMOs of Reverbs where there was a "beep" every ten seconds .... just brainstorming ....