And kudos to you Urs (if you read this) for corresponding directly with warez users, not only do i think it's the wrong way to condemn those, but also by keeping the copy protection mechanisms fair to the user, you create a sort of "I feel ashamed for doing this" feeling for some warez users (of course not all of them, those who don't care and have gigs of warez on their external harddrive will hardly care about any of this). Anyway, no matter what copy protection or business conduct, what those people do is unjust anyway, but i feel like in such a small business as the audio app business, the way companies choose to protect their software seems a bit rigid, and i believe if more of those companies would play an "open hand", there wouldn't be such a need for such restrictive protections. Maybe that's a bit naive and won't hold true for every business, but i believe that in a better understanding about why people warez, and who those people are, there could be a valid solution for at least 50% of the warez users.I just found some funny stuff...
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- KVRAF
- 35689 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
... while googling for "u-he melting GUI". Some funny threads popped up, either from warez forums, or discussions from KVR. Good read for the most part of it. And kudos to you Urs (if you read this) for corresponding directly with warez users, not only do i think it's the wrong way to condemn those, but also by keeping the copy protection mechanisms fair to the user, you create a sort of "I feel ashamed for doing this" feeling for some warez users (of course not all of them, those who don't care and have gigs of warez on their external harddrive will hardly care about any of this). Anyway, no matter what copy protection or business conduct, what those people do is unjust anyway, but i feel like in such a small business as the audio app business, the way companies choose to protect their software seems a bit rigid, and i believe if more of those companies would play an "open hand", there wouldn't be such a need for such restrictive protections. Maybe that's a bit naive and won't hold true for every business, but i believe that in a better understanding about why people warez, and who those people are, there could be a valid solution for at least 50% of the warez users.
And kudos to you Urs (if you read this) for corresponding directly with warez users, not only do i think it's the wrong way to condemn those, but also by keeping the copy protection mechanisms fair to the user, you create a sort of "I feel ashamed for doing this" feeling for some warez users (of course not all of them, those who don't care and have gigs of warez on their external harddrive will hardly care about any of this). Anyway, no matter what copy protection or business conduct, what those people do is unjust anyway, but i feel like in such a small business as the audio app business, the way companies choose to protect their software seems a bit rigid, and i believe if more of those companies would play an "open hand", there wouldn't be such a need for such restrictive protections. Maybe that's a bit naive and won't hold true for every business, but i believe that in a better understanding about why people warez, and who those people are, there could be a valid solution for at least 50% of the warez users.-
- KVRAF
- 4811 posts since 21 Jan, 2008 from oO
JamWide - a cross-platform Ninjam client for DAWs
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- KVRAF
- 4811 posts since 21 Jan, 2008 from oO
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- KVRAF
- 4141 posts since 11 Aug, 2006 from Texas
The melting GUI reminds me of this clever little easter egg added to a video game for the pirates:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/29/ ... asure-ever
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/29/ ... asure-ever
Feel free to call me Brian.
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- u-he
- 30244 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
That's a tough one. I lost contact with George and learned a few years ago that he had died.Suloo wrote:wonder what happened to the TriDirt Mk2 plans..
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- KVRAF
- 4811 posts since 21 Jan, 2008 from oO