now THAT's what im talking 'bout!!!!!
cheers,
a
On 3/12/03 10:31 AM, "daniel" <daniel@aptrick.com> wrote:
quoted 55 lines Heres a quandry - I am willing to bet half of the people bitching about> Heres a quandry - I am willing to bet half of the people bitching about
> people pirating MP3's and arguing over privacy/copyright laws have
> pirated copies of all their music-making software. ; )
>
> -daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: a stewart [mailto:alan@robotspeak.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:25 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] warez your krack? [was indie ethics]
>
>
> all right kids, lets beat this fucker to death and steer the piracy
> thread in the next obvious direction with a fun little excursive in self
> reflection.
>
> assuming a number of you idm contributors are, like yours-truly, a
> musician of the electronic genre, lets step back from the pirated music
> quandary and ask ourselves if the tools we computer musicians are using
> are legit copies.
>
> it has become commonplace for musicians to approach me unashamedly -
> EVEN PROUDLY at robotspeak with tech questions regarding an arsenal of
> pirated warez. I understand that a music software's usefulness as a
> creative tool, unlike a guitar, sousaphone or accordion, is not
> self-evident. and trying-before-buying is where kracks excel. im not
> about to tell a newbie musician to shell out 700 bones for a copy of
> logic sight unseen, and at times i've recommended against it. BUT 2
> years later when they've comfortably reached smug logic power user
> status with their krack rack of virtual synths, its not any easy thing-
> to settle a moral score and buy a legit copy.
>
> Some of the bleeding edge companies - native instruments being the
> poster child - are apparently just a tick from bleeding to death because
> of this krackage pestilence, which begs the chicken - egg question: are
> apps expensive because software companies are money-grubbing capitalists
> who want to price-out their target consumer, or are software companies
> forced to raise prices on apps to keep their company running and to pay
> their staff of incredibly talented, hardworking', and CREATIVE software
> engineers?
>
> further, how can they claim ownership over lines of code- its all ones
> and zeros, eh? ;]
>
> ------------
>
> by the way, we are doing 2 free clinics this saturday. prop reason @
> 1:00, ableton live @ 3:00, so if you can't figure out your krack because
> you got no manual, come on down and get yerself some learn'in!
>
> ;)
> lots of love and chocolate covered unicorns for all,
> aln
>
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