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by abletoff » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:52 pm
To me, pirated software has more than a function. 1) Developing cracks is a GREAT way to self-teach code inclined minds to become great programmers and 2) As a user, I can get most of what I want for free, illegally for sure but without limitations, crippling. And then more.
ALL the things I've used cracks for and I've made money from have been then bought and paid. Live being one of those softwares, the great Stillwell plugins being the next.
Other cracks in my experience got installed, tried, tested and most definitely deleted, including very expensive stuff. But none of these has fed in any way a pirate group or the other. These programs just float around, easy to pick up and I'm not going to pay a thief in any way.
Now I recognize you have to pay for a car even if you drive it for pleasure and not for work. So that cracks are inexcusable in the first place. But stealing is a great, great part of the western economy in general and in a very deep form, a cause of the present global crisis. So it's somewhat endemic, it's inoculated. But to not know the phenomena, and not have gone throught it, I would consider as a loss in experience, at least if you like to give your brain a hint of what's around you.
I'm not saying you have to shoot heroin to understand life, because you know it will destroy you sooner than expected. But breaking a rule can help understand not the rule itself, but why it has ever been pondered and what kind of value it has for you, thus defining other values and in a way, give a scale.
Kids who download cracks in tons don't make anything out of that software so I don't think they represent a danger. The only real badness is pirates that put out cracks for revenue, eating in someone else's dish. As much as I have respect for people who turn their head around exploiting darn iloks and Live's Rubik protection system, I have none for fucking thieves.
The possibility to actually acquire a product without paying for it and use it is one of these tech-times greatest revolutions and one that is changing the way we think and relate to our life. Peer to Peer is going to influence the way you relate with your work Boss, even if the things seem disconnected they are not.
And in the same way, worthless cracks can help learn to distinguish what has value in a world were nothing seems to have value at all and anymore. Poison has always been a way to immunize a system and I think you have to introduce a bit of it, every once in a while, into yours. Then dispose of it properly and maybe learn something about how you work.
Speaking of Live, it's because of cracks that I got into it with my own very slow learning progress bar. And then bought it from version 5, then upgrading to 6, 7 and soon to 8, with all instruments.
And that's what cracks are now, in this present times, or at least it's what I think: they're actually instruments. And serve their players and listeners and ripped off developers in often unpredictable ways.
Sorry for the rant.
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abletoff on Fri Mar 13, 2009 12:00 am, edited 1 time in total.
Live
9 Suite, audio trackles (several audio tracks that crackle)
i don't understand why you are so proud, you obviously frequent those sites for a reason.