i think, from reading it as a native, he was just chancing it in the hopes of getting a freebie.
really wouldn't surprise me if you all (devs) received the same mail in the next few days
i think, from reading it as a native, he was just chancing it in the hopes of getting a freebie.
I understand. I give out A LOT of NFRs to industry people and even other developers. I am a firm believer in "good will". I also BUY their plugins and they buy mine. If this guy was asking for a student discount I would have obliged.
FWIW I googled the name that appeared in the OP before it was removed and I indeed found an audio teacher of that name (location also matched IIRC).deastman wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:19 pm As already noted, this is obviously a scammer who sends the same request to every developer on the planet, hoping to score some free software. There is no school, there are no students. Real schools have an annual budget for IT resources, including the software being taught. I don’t see why this debate is worthy of even a single second of our time.
Sure, and students fully deserve it! The problem is just that from our experience, both EDU and NFR licenses attract scammers like there's no tomorrow, which is sad and thus requires some care.JCJR wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:20 pm Fender19 dunno if that letter is scammish or not but academics and students have been conditioned to have certain expectations.
Students can buy full academic versions of MS Office or Matlab cheaper than the typical cost of the (overpriced) specialized disposable textbooks that total hundreds of bucks extra expense per semester above the tuition financed against their future earnings until retirement. But an ordinary civilian possibly even more penniless than a student has to fork over the big bucks for the same MS Office or MatLab. Young people and academics have "natural privileges" because they are so special ya know!
That's great idea... as long as you have money. Point is, not everyone in the world does and young students are the least expected to have some.
Yep it is nice to have at least one fella in a sales/marketing dept to wade thru the BS. Am not imagining how big or small any particular dev is. Haven't the foggiest idea. Just that there is such a daunting amount of random distracting BS to plague a sole proprietor developer.Richard_Synapse wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2019 2:59 pm Sure, and students fully deserve it! The problem is just that from our experience, both EDU and NFR licenses attract scammers like there's no tomorrow, which is sad and thus requires some care.
Richard
Frankly, I wasn't sure what it said, but after your note I took the challenge and gave it another look...
Note I fixed two typos (italicized), the most important being "is ending quickly...".This request is not so I can simply use these plugins for myself, but as a way to help keep up with the changes in the industry as well as demonstrate how these plugins work to encourage them to purchase the plugins themselves. The time of downloading cracked plugins is ending quickly with the progress in software security so many of my students are asking me where to turn to.
I didn't find it "sinister" either - I found it astounding. His students - which represent much of the young music production public - seem dead in the water if they can't download cracked plugins.
OK—but were you really astounded that students pirate software? For that matter, surprised that musicians of any age pirate software? You must be a young guy.Fender19 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:11 amI didn't find it "sinister" either - I found it astounding. His students - which represent much of the young music production public - seem dead in the water if they can't download cracked plugins.
THAT is the issue. "I can't get it for free so what should I do?".
My reaction - that for some reason got some ridicule here was - BUY IT! THAT is "what you do"!
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