EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

sorenrv wrote:

>
> To me this thread is about using the group to discuss and test our
> ethics and for me this is a valuable excercise.

Hi Sorens. Yes, I agree, and it is for me too.

>
> Eli, either you and I disagree on copyright ethics (which from recent
> posts I do not think we do) or you have taken one sentence out of
> context and chosen to comment on that alone. I wish you would comment
> on my post as such.

We don't disagree. I'm sorry for taking your sentence out of context. Of
course if samples are legitimately copyright clean, it doesn't matter what's
on one's hard drive. And it's always our individual responsibilities to have
our eyes wide open.

This whole issue is very sensitive for me. Over the past few months, many
sincere heartfelt posts on this list have caused me to re-think the whole
sample piracy issue. Temptation and morality make for a difficult wrestling
match. In the past I haven't always been strong. I don't think I'm alone
here either.... I'm trying to be a better virtual citizen now. But I don't
want to come across like a religious convert preaching the gospel either.
Anyway, I don't have any specific point to make.... just that I'm sorry I
took your quote out of contect and that I think almost all of us are in
agreement around here as to basic distinctions between right and wrong in
regards to piracy.

Garth makes some compelling distinctions betwen single license useage, and
doing work for clients with one's single license software. I have worked in
several post production houses and I think Garth is correct in that it's not
the big commercial money making studios that are the problem. It's the
casual attitudes of individual users that cause the hemmoraging (sp?) of
intellectual property.



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Eli Krantzberg
Nightshift Orchestra / Almat Productions
http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com