Being a snitch

[q.musgrove]

If only it could always end this way

it didn't end like this big pile of fail, what a weirdo!!

http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?p=986588#p986588

weird freaking day.

You're brutal but honest. Like my luvin.

[jlgrimes]

Hey...I'm real frustrated...I save up and buy "all" software to have a clear mind...I know some people that just rip it off from the net...where can i snitch on these people to get them into trouble? I found sites for movie piracy, but nothing in software.

If you really want to do that, your best bet is to tell the software manufacturers themselves and let them deal with the issue.


I bet some manufacturers might even have a department which might allow you to call or email them of pirating activity.

I wouldn't call the police or something, the police probably won't even know how to handle an issue like that (esp when the pirating most likely is rooted in an overseas or at least out of town location).

[Machinesworking]

Not every software company is some huge corporation with an aim of Global domination. Some software companies are simply comprised of just one individual. U-he's Urs Heckman (Zebra 2, Uhbik, MFM2, Filterscape + many, many, many more) is just one person. Audio Damage is just 2 people. Sometimes when you steal, you are stealing from individuals that are not super-wealthy, but simply love what they do.

Hate to break it to you, but in private in person conversations with some of these smaller developers I've chatted about using cracks in the past, I've even had one admit to using a [k] of a cubase plug in in retaliation for how badly coded he thought Cubase was, until eventually getting a clean system. Truth is, underneath all the bullshit grandstanding all of us are moral relativists, but we at some level know what is wrong and what is right, and what is wrong and right is conditional at best.

@ stringtapper, I get it, agree with you on all of it actually. I'm OK with the chance that something of mine gets stolen if it means a freer society. Simple equation on the law I agree with: The more protection you want the less freedom you will have, and visa versa. I will always opt for more freedom. It's why dongled software will probably never be used on my machines.