Comments on: Caught Cracking

By: freddy

freddy — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:53:46 +0000

Notanativespeaker> I don’t buy that jazz at all, yeah people discover new stuff, but if they are stealing it they will generally carry on stealing it, nobody I know buys it later, they just steal everything, that includes people I know who easily earn enough to spend a few hundred a month on music and movies.. they just dont give a crap ..like john dahlback..he has no excuse, he earns enough to not need to bother try before buy, he can just buy. hes just a greedy thief.

By: Not a native speaker

Not a native speaker — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:19:29 +0000

Oliver, the funny thing about music downloads is that I know your music only because I found it on a download site back in the days (same goes for John Dahlback). You should not underestimate the ‘promotion effect’ shared music, because in general only the good stuff is uploaded and shared. And a lot of people buy the stuff they ‘discover’ on Emule or Rapidshare.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:23:49 +0000

Heh, I don’t know any “high quality” iOS apps, especially ones for $5.

By: gregory

gregory — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:36:24 +0000

They really need to lower software prices. The pricing scheme on iOS apps has ruined me. If I can get a high quality music app for 5 dollars, I expect a high quality VST to be priced about the same. I now can’t imagine paying more than 15-20 bucks for ANY piece of music software outside of a DAW. And I’m amused by the holier-than-thou attitudes here towards software piracy. Apparently, using cracked software is something everybody does but few will admit to doing. There’s really no shame in using cracked software. Do it or don’t do it, whatever. The damage is done and irreversible . . . anyone making music software now (outside of iOS) is well aware that it’s going to be cracked to hell. But that has been a good thing since it has made companies like NI shift their focus towards hardware and I believe that a good piece of hardware is more beneficial to music than a thousand VSTs.

By: 12 Gage

12 Gage — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:23:12 +0000

Livin Life off Crack With Producer Morals :P

woo crazy read! agreed! when you start making sales and getting mad pay for your tunes it would be nice that all your software is legit. after using tones of share-ware, HD Crashes and now getting tracks to retailers- I feel the try before you buy stage is over for me. IT SUCKS!!! I love the sylenth 1, Massive, Moog and all those great plug ins from Waves Ozone ETC and countless others that are so easy to get thru search engines just looking for the Official synth site( usually #2 search result is for the cracked version)! Having producer morals now :(
my new work station only has factory plugins from the daw and two soft synths I sold my body to get :P its like learning all over. If you learn to play the game cheating and challenge yourself to do legit its not so easy after the bad habits you learn. Kick in the pants I tell ya. as for John, guess its between Him and Lenard D now :P. You would think that they would send him free versions since big name and all. You guys ever think to your self hey if these plugins where like half the price we “could afford” and actually want to buy them. 2cents..Happy Mixing People!
if you know of any support groups for ex share-ware users I need help…lol

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:51:25 +0000

That’s true… I had no idea who he was before this.

By: Greencross

Greencross — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:44:41 +0000

Free software + free PR = More gigs for Dahlback.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:18:04 +0000

I buy my music too.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:14:54 +0000

This is a weird thread. Before I read people comments I thought the majority would DEFEND Dahlback. Because that’s what álmost A L W A Y S happens if there’s an article about music-piracy. Downloading anything pirated from web: music, films (and now even books) seems to be alright according to some people. There’s always a rant about how the “horrible music business” or “horrible film industry” have themselves to blame for making such “expensive” products that the consumer is forced to download it illegally. You even have the pirate activists who says that we live in a digital age where copyright laws ought to be obliterated. BUT LO AND BEHOLD: this does not seem to apply to software! I have noticed this in other discussions and this thread is a fine example: all kinds of illegal downloading seems to be ok – EXCEPT software downloading. This is hypocrisy at it’s height. Let’s sort things out. A CD/digital download is NOT expensive. A ticket to the movies is NOT expensive. Most people using software cracks are NOT making any money out of it. Buying a program such as Cubase and some nice plug-ins such as Arturia’s will dig deeeeeeeep holes in your pockets. So in the end it’s really the opposite: if there’s anything that is overpriced – it is software. Many programs are really out of reach for people to buy, it’s just too expensive. THIS is the big irony today: again and again you hear how people defend music or movie piracy, but almost never software piracy. THAT IS FUCKED UP! If piracy is wrong, if piracy is stealing – then it is the same no matter what you download! Software is NOT “more” illegal to download!!!

By: Raytrace

Raytrace — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:51:31 +0000

ah yeh that’s right – he was goin on about it in some interview I think