EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- Sascha Franck <S.Franck@...> wrote:

> 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

Boy, I could go on a rant about those clowns. I do not
however, want to start a huge flame war over them

> 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.
 
You're probably right, Sir !!!  I'm a good example of
a pirate gone legit. The problem is that in the age of
information, there are no fences, alarm systems, 
guard dogs, or police to prevent theft on a global
scale.

anyway, that notion is out there, coming from
nationally known media sources

 
> 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.
Talk about convoluted robin hood- they steal from
honest folks to give to the greedy
 
> Still, I don't think monolithic file formats are
> helping a lot.

I'm with you there too. I bought e-lab's  "foundation"
recently (which is a great product -BTW). The main
file is a single HUGE file weighing in at about 4 GB.
That's a lot of space on the 40gb drive in my
Powerbook. It would be nice to just use a portion of
that at a time.


 
> Regards,
> Sascha




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