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Originally Posted by jmarkham  The exact same thing would happen if companies like Waves, Digidesign,
Steinberg, etc. etc. did not take steps to protect their software from the
likes of Pirate Bay, etc. |
Steinberg should create a bug-free product before asking to pay for something useless in order to run a program that crashes.
Digidesign has the luck of owning the de facto standard in big studios; also, a lot of plugins are created for this platform. But native stuff is catching up and DSP cards will soon be useless (in the future they will be just like dongles - really expensive ones).
Waves... can be replaced. There's nothing in Waves that cannot be replaced with other plugins that do the same.
I haven't seen one thing that cannot be replaced with a dongle-free alternative; by alternative I mean at least as good or even better.
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Originally Posted by manning1 heres something to ponder.
hackers remember have kids TOO.
what if hackers kids grow up to be musicians trying to sell songs or to build software products that everyone takes for no payment. ??
how will their hacker parents feel THEN when their kids cant make a decent living ??
OR..
what happens when the hackers themselves get old in the old folks home ,
and their kids cant afford to pay for their ex hacker parents old folks home fees ,
cos the hackers kids cant make a living from their songs or software creations ??
ie..what goes around comes around sorta idea. see what i mean ??
watch the hue n cry then !! |
Hackers might teach their kids to create music for free. You know that exists, right? And you know that music will be created and that artists that make music for free aren't dying of hunger, right?
Also, software developers have their way of earning money. It's not like EVERYONE pirates. Some give it cost - free.