KVR Audio

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:00 pm

Sure, developers need to make a living but when they put their "free" products on sites like VSTPlanet and you end up seeing "Add To Cart" and "Facebook" and "Sign Up", what do you do?

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:03 pm

Get to a safe space and molest a therapy dog?

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 5:09 pm

Interesting that they have the magware Beatzille. Shady, shady site.

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:11 pm

Aloysius wrote:Get to a safe space and molest a therapy dog?

Hahaha. I used to didn't quite know what the word fondle meant (I thought it meant: to pet) but I would use it in sentences like "Time to fondle the cat." Eventually someone corrected me and said something like "that's what perverts do, fondle" and I said something like "Geez!! You are serious? Are you sure?" And I might have said something like "I knew it all along, I was just trying to be funny". But I don't think the person believed me because it was, I guess, a bad and obvious attempt at recovering whatever it was I was trying to recover.

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:16 pm

chk071 wrote:Interesting that they have the magware Beatzille. Shady, shady site.

I'm not sure if VSTPlanet is shady because of that. If you got a plugin from a magazine for free and then you share it with everybody, is that illegal?

I think I've downloaded something named Steinberg collections volume 1 and 2 there at VSTPlanet.

I think it's the developers themselves that put up these "Add To Cart" and Facebook links, etc. It's not VSTPlanet that does it.

Recently, I did sign up at a site named fruitytuts.com because they have Steinberg LM-4 to download for free, no "Add To Cart" and "Facebook" thingies there but they do require people to sign up or else one can't download anything. And they do state that they (fruitytuts.com) made/make sure that all download stuff there are legal. Now, if Steinberg LM-4 isn't actually free, I am wondering how many VST plugins I already have are not free. I have over 10,000 "free" plugins.

Googly Smythe · Post by **Googly Smythe** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:18 pm

tanstaafl
Or the kvr version
tanstaafp

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:21 pm

I'm pretty sure re-distributing magware without permission is not legal.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:27 pm

Googly Smythe wrote:tanstaafl
Or the kvr version
tanstaafp

shouldn't that be ... tinstaafl

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:43 pm

I'm kind of puzzled. If I got something for free legally, I can't share it? For example, I can email the stoooner plugin to my buddies, right? But because I got a VST plugin for free from a magazine, I can't share that "free" plugin with my buddies or anyone? But if I can do that, why can't VSTPlanet?

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:48 pm

Depends on the plugins EULA. Some devs don't allow redistribution unless you get permission.

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:58 pm

Oh oh oh I think I just got it. The magazine itself isn't free. But generally, in the past, most "free" VST plugins were actually free and had no catches and most developers didn't make you jump hoops. But maybe that's the past and hoops is the now and the future.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:02 pm

harryupbabble wrote:
chk071 wrote:Interesting that they have the magware Beatzille. Shady, shady site.
I'm not sure if VSTPlanet is shady because of that. If you got a plugin from a magazine for free and then you share it with everybody, is that illegal?

Yes, because it is a agreement between the company who did the plugin, and the mag to release the plugin for the mag's content, which means that it is also a selling factor for the mag. You can't just put magware on your site, and distribute it at discretion. You can't even distribute freeware at discretion, if the author doesn't allow the free distribution of the plugin.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:05 pm

harryupbabble wrote:I'm kind of puzzled. If I got something for free legally, I can't share it?

you cant share anyone's copyrighted work unless you have permission.

and just because the plugin didnt cost you any money that doesnt mean you automatically get that permission.

Aleatoriac · Post by **Aleatoriac** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:39 pm

whyterabbyt wrote:
harryupbabble wrote:I'm kind of puzzled. If I got something for free legally, I can't share it?
you cant share anyone's copyrighted work unless you have permission.

and just because the plugin didnt cost you any money that doesnt mean you automatically get that permission.

Yeah! People worked on this stuff! You bastards!

This just doesn't apply to recorded music anymore. That you can just apparently toss around freely anywhere

Now buy my damn music!

truthbomber · Post by **truthbomber** » Wed Mar 01, 2017 8:20 pm

The topic title and first reply killed me.

PS. I personally like the page so I can get a download link then immediately unlike it.
...doesn't everyone?

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