Do You Bolt Like Usain?

[harryupbabble]

So I guess I have to recheck my 10,000+ free plugins to see if they are shareable whenever I want to share any of them. Trouble is I deleted those license agreement text files that came with the plugins just to save hard drive space and to make my file searchers work faster and give less crappy searched results. Plus I remember that not all of them VST plugins came with such sharing agreement text files. To be safe, I probably just won't do any sharing. I can maybe just state "Get it from free-legally-shareable-vstplugins.com". It probably doesn't exist. It should.

Yeah I guess why would VSTPlanet and other sites like that even care if the downloaders know if the "free" plugins they are downloading are shareable. Their motto is probably "download it from here and nowhere else, fool". But what if BeatZille is downloadable at VSTPlanet because it does care about sharing issues and it got permission from the developer of BeatZille to share it. Or is VSTPlanet truly shady and a site to be avoided by us naive downloaders? Seems legit. Been there a while. Older than YouTube?

Okay, thanks very much guys/gals, for the free education about copyright and stuff. But it's mostly the "Add To Cart" and Facebook links that I am seeing more and more lately at VSTPlanet and sites like that that I was sort of worried about. Maybe those jump-this hoop-first-but-free plugins are really really good stuff but I am bolting because bolting is better than jumping. Are other downloaders of free VST plugins apathetic hoop jumpers or do most just say "I already got tons of this stuff, a few less shouldn't hurt"?

Wowie too much typing today. Good for speed scrabble though. Learned stuff too. Danke again. Okay bye.

[chk071]

But what if BeatZille is downloadable at VSTPlanet because it does care about sharing issues and it got permission from the developer of BeatZille to share it. Or is VSTPlanet truly shady and a site to be avoided by us naive downloaders? Seems legit. Been there a while. Older than YouTube?

Imagine you release a magazine, and you want people to buy it, and you put stuff on the mag's DVD, so that people buy the mag for the stuff on the DVD. Would you want the stuff on the DVD to be shared on a site where people pay nothing for downloading the plugin? So where did VSTPlanet get the plugin from, if not from the Beat DVD. So, they thought they could just upload it to their site, and shared it with others, hm, makes sense.

Anyway, not to blow this out of proportion. But, not the first time i saw something like that on VSTPlanet.

[Googly Smythe]

tanstaafl
Or the kvr version
tanstaafp

shouldn't that be ... tinstaafl

Pardon my English - it's the cockney in me!

[harryupbabble]

But what if the developer of BeatZille had a falling out with the magazine or what if the contract they agreed on has a time limit? And after a while the developer can pick any site and say "okay you guys can distribute my BeatZille". How are downloaders supposed to know what happened in the background?

You may have noticed that BeatZille is magware but others like me might not even know what magware is we just see products at VSTPlanet and think "I download stuff here all the time and for so long now, there's trust", and also "Ooooh BeatZille, it's red (or whatever color) I like it, I will add it to my huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge VST collection just in case I get good at music-making and in the future I will care about the sound too and not just the composition and BeatZille could be usefull". Hahaha, it's possible, some people could be thinking exactly just like that.

Okay for reals, I need a long overdue haircut and a shower. Bye.