EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> I'm so confused: How can this be legal?
There's the rub - technically it is not... it is, in fact, totally illegal
and in most courts or law across the world could be prosecuted under various
copyright laws and laws relating to 'unfair trading'.

It's the audio equivalent of of taking images from the latest movie
blockbuster (say 'Narnia' or 'Harry Potter 4') and running off T-shirts to
sell at a car boot sale (or, indeed, on a website). It is also pretty much
the equivalent of copying/sampling any of the major sound libs (Garritan,
VSL, East-West, whatever) and selling those as 'your own'.

Think about it for a moment: Korg, Yamaha, Roland - whoever - spend $1.5
millions developing a new product (including teams of sound designers across
the world making new sounds for it). The product price is set according to
projected sales in order to recoup those substantial R+D investments. It
goes into production and hits the streets. And then some twat like this come
along, samples all the sounds and sells 'em for peanuts. Not only that, this
one brags that you don't need to spend $2,500 on the original keyboard;
$14.99 will get you the lot!! Hmmmmm!

To be honest, I believe that promoting this Floss product here is
contravening the fine and upstanding policy regarding piracy that this forum
upholds. Think about it for a moment: I doubt anyone would report user/tech
problems regarding any 3rd-party sound lib (such as the aforementioned
Garritan, VSL, East-West, whatever) that had been similarly ripped off. In
fact, I doubt the message would even make it up for public consumption...
the rigorous moderator would censor it! It's no different.

Furthermore, many of these companies have teams of legal eagles looking out
for such contraventions - Floss could be in serious trouble if/when found
out. He could be slammed with (at the very least) 'cease and desist' orders
from the company's attorneys, could be charged for copyright convention of
their sounds, for using (even *abusing*) their registered trademark, etc..

I am sure the guy is acting in all innocence but what he is doing is
technically illegal. Technically as well, anyone who subscribes to his
products by buying them is complicit in an act of piracy of intellectual
copyright.



Best regards,


Steve
http://www.hollowsun.com