Paw.
I dont think its a case of this being a 'pointless thread'.
I think the problems arose with your initial 'gosh, piracy must be a real problem for you software developers' post (a little like suggesting that being diagnosed with cancer may spoil an otherwise good lunch) which somewhat (perhaps unintentionally) downplayed the seriousness of this issue.
And some of the other responses that, to varying degree's, implied that in some instances using kracked software could be justified.
As a user paying thousands of dollars for software I find it extremely annoying that others may be utilising this without paying...and since they dont have this overhead they can easily undercut composers who do pay for the software.
And I can only imagine how this must affect the developers...
I dont think its a case of this being a 'pointless thread'.
I think the problems arose with your initial 'gosh, piracy must be a real problem for you software developers' post (a little like suggesting that being diagnosed with cancer may spoil an otherwise good lunch) which somewhat (perhaps unintentionally) downplayed the seriousness of this issue.
And some of the other responses that, to varying degree's, implied that in some instances using kracked software could be justified.
As a user paying thousands of dollars for software I find it extremely annoying that others may be utilising this without paying...and since they dont have this overhead they can easily undercut composers who do pay for the software.
And I can only imagine how this must affect the developers...