Jeez what a knob this guy...
Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
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Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not even the majority of major music production suites - Ableton Live, FL Studio, Propellerhead Reason are all incredibly easy to license, download, and install and all three have easy-to-use market places to purchase and download third party plug-ins. Pro Tools is really more of an exception than the rule. To be honest, I'm not sure why people are still using it extensively other than legacy purchases and lock-in wi…
People still use Pro Tools? I can't think of a single popular commercial DAW that's worse to use. Pretty much the only people I see use it are all aspiring rappers. I guess it has hip hop cred. Tangentially, I can't think of a single piece of Avid software that isn't a flaming piece of shit. Full disclosure: I used to have to support Avid.
Pro Tools is still pretty much _the_ standard for audio recording, mixing and AV post-production.
If you're just producing electronic music, want VSTs, and/or just using a few live tracks, then yeah; you're probably far better off using something else.
Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
#93If you look at the YouTube user thumbnail, it's actually producer Mike Dean who's logged in. Kanye and Dean work closely together, and it very well might be a photo of Dean's computer. Speculative and sensationalist reporting by Ars. [1] https://m.youtube.com/user/deanslistproductions
Thank you, finally someone who actually looks at the photo rather than the headline
Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
#94Meh, "people in glass houses...": > @deadmau5 > I used a pirated copy of sylenth on my last 4 albums. #TrueReveal https://twitter.com/deadmau5/status/367265601640603648 Steve Aoki was also caught using the above software in a music video with Linkin Park, though he proved that he had bought the software but his assistants installed a pirated version on his road laptop. http://stoneyroads.com/2013/08/steve-aoki-respon…
>To purchase the software you have to go through a bunch of screens, enter payment info, download, install, and then enter a serial number. For pirating software you just search for it and it's usually easier to install, with some cracks even bypassing steps. For me that's counterbalanced by the fact that you never quite know what you're getting with pirated software. If I just buy it, I know I'm not infecting my mai…
Password managers usually have a way to add serial numbers or secure notes, that's where I store mine. And you should be using a password manager anyway, if you aren't already.
Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
#95If you opened some of the built in audio files in Windows XP with a hex editor, you could see that they were created with a cracked version of SoundForge. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/pirated-software-used-to-creat...
Vaguely related, Windows 95's iconic The Microsoft Sound was composed on a Mac.
Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
#96Hey Kenji, just FYI, I find something a little off-putting in using "midget porn" as the example of something worse. Maybe I've become overly sensitive to possibly hurtful language in this era of codes of conduct, microaggressions, trigger words, etc. But I think it's marginalizing to use the sexuality of a segment of people (consenting adults, let's assume) as something shameful. I've also read that midget is consid…
OP didn't mean no harm but yours is a very thoughtful observation.
Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
#97I understand that what Kanye did was as wrong as any other pirating. However, as a result of that screenshot that software got a free endorsement from Kanye West. I imagine that guy is going to wake up surprised this morning when he looks at total sales from last night.
It's not about that one missed sale, but think about all the (even high profile/rich) people who steal the software
I definitely understand, I'm not saying pirating is good. I'm especially not saying "Once you hit a certain level of success, you should pirate!" Just suggesting that due to this incident the creators made quite a few sales.
I think pirating is wrong and I pay for my software/music.
Edit: Whoa! You're one of the creators. Congrats on getting this kind of exposure. It's unfortunate it has to be because wealthy people don't pay for your product. :(
Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
#98It could have been worse, he could have had a tab open with midget porn ;P Seriously, guys, sanitize your screenshots. Every screenshot I take, I crop down as much as possible and check for stuff like that thoroughly. Bookmarks, tabs, windows, system tray, notification, they all could potentially contain very private or even incriminating information.
Except he used probably camera phone to take screenshot because his Monitor's brand is in it.
On Android phones at least, it's trivial to crop a photo before sharing it.
Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Color it by any technicality you want, but it is taking something from somebody and in common vernacular, that is theft.
I agree that someone is making money using a tool acquired illegally and the creator of the tool needs to be paid. > but it is taking something from somebody Here is where the inaccurate language harms discussion. Nothing is taken from the author. The author still has just as much as they had before the unlawful copying, apart from lost opportunity. They have lost a potential sale. The analogy with theft breaks down…
Two things being different doesn't make one of them irrelevant.
Consider if you made ... something to sell. Something great, that you know people want. But no one bought it. But they want it, they just waited you out until you gave up and threw it away, and then yoinked it from your trash.
It's a violation of social decency, as much as pilfering something from your home -- maybe more so. The mere act of physical appropriation can't be the most important thing, since we don't complain about stealing some dirt or water from your property, and we don't complain about, say, chopping down a tree.
Perhaps a better word for copyright violation is vandalism, not theft. It destroys the value of someone's work, the taking isn't the important part.
Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software
#100Perhaps just like everyone else he's realised that pirating is easier than buying, no matter how much money you have.
It's dead simple to buy Serum (first-hand experience) and you don't have to worry about malware, I don't buy this premise. They also actively support and develop their products and you get free updates and support for years. I don't see why it's so hard to buy.