| For the guy who downloaded an "evaluation" of the Waves software, he got what was coming to him. There is never ever any basis for someone to steal something in order to 'evaluate' it. If you wanted to buy a BMW, you wouldn't steal anothers and return it would you? Even if the other party never found out, isn't it still wrong?
If we as studio owners reject the idea of people downloading music albums we should be helping fight against software piracy. The stories of Waves slapping people with suits shouldn't be the only deterent. It hurts us all and increases the prices of the software we want, or worse yet, makes people not even want to produce these softwares. And you know this!!
I hate to sound like a narc, but we should be reporting the people that we know of that willing using these hacked softwares, either for hobby, or profit. If we were more intolerant of our friends downloading music, software, intelletual properties in general, than these people would be ashamed of doing such things knowing that there is a stigma. |