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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

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It 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.

Or just take a screenshot of the intended content instead of the whole screen. Most (?) screenshot software have a feature for choosing a specific window / section of a window.

On MacOS it's builtin, Cmd + Shift + 4 lets you select a screen area

(yeah, not as intuitive as having a PrtScrn button)

Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software

#22
post #7

It 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.

Edit: This is about taking screenshots of a device fro the same device. I see in another comment that the screenshot here was a photo taken by a smartphone (which is a different topic).

This is really an issue most people aren't aware of. People somehow learn how to take screenshots of their entire desktop on computers and share them, but also somehow fail to learn how to take screenshots of a window or crop/blur them appropriately. Or perhaps they're always in a hurry and don't have the time to look up how to deal with it.

I have learned which banks some people use (online banking tab open), which browser they use, which programs are running on their system (from the task bar), which Facebook pages they have open, whom they're messaging with on Facebook, which other articles around the web they're reading, and so many other details just by looking at screenshots. It may not be an issue that I got to know these, but it's an information leak that should've been avoided.

Since people aren't going to change quickly, the only solution I can think of is having the screenshot feature or software on all platforms ask the user with a simple UI what they would like to black/blur out and then save that. Dear Apple, here's a cue to build this right into iOS and OS X to continue with the "privacy matters" motto for users (of course, it would be great if Google and MS also embrace this across all their platforms).

Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software

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post #18

Not defending him here, he's a professional millionaire musician and should just buy it... But music software is a HUGE pain in the ass to purchase. Pro Tools, for example, is tied to a dongle. It's 2016, and that's still the security method they choose to use. Lose the dongle? You're fucked. It's unfathomably frustrating.

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 with some hardware vendors.

Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software

#25

its a publicity stunt, this is so freaking obvious. kanye west knows the dangers in the public more than enough, to know what he's posting. anyone agree?

No. Kanye is a law unto himself with a vast team of reactive PR people who try and perform damage control as and when needed.

Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software

#27

Meh, "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…

Lately my experience has been more like log into website with pre-existing account, download latest legitimate licensed software.

Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software

#28
Might seem trite but one of the reasons I attribute my rather good PC music laptop experience over the past 10 years is not using any pirate/suspect downloads. Be it software or music itself by others. Sticking with what I could purchase (or demo) meant relatively stable installs. A couple versions of Ableton Live were shaky, but along the way things have been patched and I am a happy customer. Lots of free VSTs as well, it doesn't take a lot of research.

Whether it's him doing it or a member of his 'team' - the guy has a writer stable of 14 known artists[1] and brings in others like he was giving away free studio time and Yeezy shoes - it just smacks of lazy. Certainly it happens in the industry. Lots of various approaches are easy or time consuming type difficult[2], I guess it kind of depends on the producer and the goal.

Personally I just like using great new tools[3] that cost very little but allow for a lot of creative expressiveness. YMMV.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOD_Music#Current_acts

[2] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-little-known-recording-...

[3] https://www.propellerheads.se/figure

Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just take a screenshot of the intended content instead of the whole screen. Most (?) screenshot software have a feature for choosing a specific window / section of a window.

On MacOS it's builtin, Cmd + Shift + 4 lets you select a screen area (yeah, not as intuitive as having a PrtScrn button)

But at least MacOS screenshot keys automatically save the screenshot. Took me ages to figure out that on XP you have to paste into Paint or something after hitting the 'printscr' button.

Re: Kanye West caught using Pirate Bay to download music software

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Meh, "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…

The most amusing situation to me was when Carnage made a god-awful tutorial for Razer Music, in which he used a pirated version of Sylenth. Once he got called out by the public, he said[1] in a tweet:

> “lmaooo wtf why does it matter?”

LennarDigital (the company behind Sylenth) decided to reply to his tweet and said that they "are happy to make it a matter".

He later on went and accused Razer that it was their laptop in the video, which resulted in them canceling the contract with him and removing that god-awful tutorial from their website. I laughed so hard as the accusations went on and on.

[1] http://www.youredm.com/2015/10/22/sylenth-threatens-to-sue-c...

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