Problem with WERSI - solved.

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Problem with WERSI - solved. 2010-08-26T14:52:23+00:00 EDIT: whoever happens to read this thread after more than one year should know that Wersi, now property of Musicstore Cologne, has finally repaired to their mistake. ORIGINAL POST: Everybody knows what piracy is, the damage it does to software manufacturers and to the whole system, and everybody knows that downloading and using a pirated software, even for "private use", is a crime anyway. Well, I would never had imagined that an act of piracy could ever been done by a well known manufacturer of home organs and digital keyboards, I'm talking about WERSI , have you ever heard about this brand? Here's the (short) story: a while back I was contacted by a certain Ulrich Wildhack , who was in charge for Wersi as a chairman and salesman, over a possible collaboration for including my VB3 into their own software as an addition to or replacement of NI B4. For this purpose, they asked me a NFR (Not For Resale) license of VB3 in order to test the software on their keyboards. After a few months of silence from both parties, I was contacted by a friend of mine who invited me to visit WERSI's website, onto which there was a news headline reporting that the new software upgrade had been released and it also included VB3! I was not aware of this and I wasn't even asked permission for proceeding. They practically "embedded" the NFR license I gave them into their software package. In the meanwhile, WERSI went out of business towards the beginning of 2010. Someone told me that they already started selling those "packages" with the same NFR license for 100 euros each. And I wasn't informed, wasn't asked permission, and I didn't get a single dime either! Tomorning the confirmation arrives: a belgian guy sends me an email telling that he bought VB3 from Wersi last years, and he wanted to know if he could update it to the latest version. He said he paid 100 euros for it. Now the "WERSI" brand name belongs to Musik Store - Cologne, and the gentlemen who scammed me and their customers has nothing to do with WERSI any more. But, well, you know the story now.[/u] ZioKiller https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8529

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Post by JuergenPB » Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:36 pm

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Acid Mitch wrote:
Mattiiiii wrote:To the OP: I would pay 50 EUR or so to contact a lawyer and to let him/her write the letter to Wersi. .
Hopefully the op did all this 6 months ago when the thread died.(check dates of posts before JuergenP8 )
Bit late to be giving him advice me thinks.

Sorry,
I wrote that posting as soon as WildNoise went into business and started to sell "WildOrgan".
This was just a hint to show what happend to NuBiPlus/Spinner. As pj geerlings wrote on 26th Aug. 2010, the distribution rights were sold to WildNoise, so this has nothing to do with the piracy of the VB3.

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Regarding the discussion about the Brand "Wersi" (as far as I know and remember):

First Wersi
Wersi startet in 1969, founded by the two brothers Wilhelm Erich and Reinhard Franz. The company went into insolvency in the 1990s

2nd Wersi
A new company "Wersi" was founded by Mr. Kamps and some others. Two or three year later (about 1995), they also went into insolvency.

3rd Wersi
Another company "Wersi" was founded and it also went into insolvency in 1997.

4th Wersi
Again the rebirth of "Wersi", which also only lived 2 Years until the insolveny of 1999.

5th Wersi
Now, the two Brothers Franz again came in charge with "Wersi". Later on - in 2005 - they handed over the company to Mr. Wildhack and Mr. Reichold. This company went into insolvency on 31. December 2009.

In 2010 Musicstore bought the Trademark (not the company) "WERSI".

During all the time the name was more or less "Wersi" - somtimes "Wersi GmbH" or "Wersi International GmbH" or something else.

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