EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

john mason wrote:
 > can't blame these cats for going propriatary. i see our stuff on the newsgroups all the time (actually, i haven't looked at a
binary group for over a year, but i'm sure our stuff is out there still)

In times of fast broadband net connections using large monolithic files doesn't seem to help. Instead of downloading illegally
redistributed single patches people are just going for the cracked player along with the samples.

> I heard a stat the other day that blew me away. If there were no piracy, america's trade deficet would be totally eliminated.
that's staggering !!

I don't believe this for a single second. It's sheer nonsense. Just the same sort of nonsense record companies and the RIAA are
telling us, such as "every download is a lost sale" - which is utter bullshit. I remember some MIT profs doing a research on that
thing (and yes, they interviewed people anonymously and things like that), and it came out that the actual loss through downloaded
music was like around 2-3% of the overall loss.
The same might be true for pirated software, samples, videos and whatever (ok, actually, regarding videos it *might* be a bit
different). I suspect most people being hunters and collectors, no actual users.
Almost all the people I know actually using software have bought it.

But yes, it might be a bit different with samples, as you can "hide" them somewhat easily, especially once they're converted to some
other format.
And of course, I could just get some chainsaw out whenever I run into a (commercial) studio with walls of copied sample CDs - "Oh,
those are backup copies, we keep the originals at a safe place"... such assholes are driving me sick indeed. You spend like 1500
Euro a day in their studios and they can't even afford their string libraries, good god, what a sick world.

Still, I don't think monolithic file formats are helping a lot.

Regards,
Sascha