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Originally Posted by charles maynes  I have two words for this- Entrapment., and trespassing. The secret video should not be admissable in court I would think, and the description of the chain of events seem ripe for a judge to award the studio owner significant punitive damages. I think it is high time for a full on Waves boycott. I cannot stand business practices such as these, and I certainly will not give them any financial reward for it.
any lawyers comment?
charles maynes |
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Entrapment? I guess I was just extra pissed-off at humanity that day...
But seriously-
Waves is suffering from a whole lot of user dissatisfaction here-
Yes, they have had problems with piracy. It seems that the copy-protection they chose to use was vulnerable to hacking. Making a fair number of their legal customers chumps for spending their money on legal vs illegal software. However, I think that when Waves instituted the "WUP" plan- which is one of the only subscription plans in the industry, it seemed to many that, instead of fixing the real problem of software theft, they were instead charging their legitimate users to make up the losses they were suffering. Even when finally moving to the iLok, they had their own way they wished to deal with it, bypassing the convenience of iLok's zdt, and otherwise good customer service.
Waves has every right to protect their interests, but they seem to be the only company who is feeling compelled to do it in such an ugly way.
Other companies like McDSP, who have about the best record ever for customer support- has yet to charge for an update- since ProTools 3!, And when the iLok came out, they saw their sales go up, and piracy go down.
charles maynes