Passing around games on cassette tape back in the 80s, I was a king

 

Personally, I'm against it.

 

Why on earth would anyone necro an 8 year old thread that predicted there would be no piracy by 2018?

 

Pirate sites are always going down, especially when everyone knows about them. In fact, they’re not gone. If you see them gone, it’s because you’re not in the know anymore.

 

Piracy? is this a new thing? Its not something I was aware of. Do people put a grappling hook on your laptop and try to pull it to them. This is very concerning and confusing. I may have to switch to a tower computer to make things far more difficult for these pyrates or whatever you call them.

I just googled this and all I got was pictures of Johnny Depp, whats up with that?

 

Commodore 64 days were the best! Great memories. Those loading times taught me to be patient ('til this day).

 

dont like it

 

I wonder how long it would take if windows came with a dongle like cubase untill version 12. Cubase was not cracked for years. However, the demand for cubase is of course much, much lower than windows.
Cubase likely lost marketshare by not being able to be cracked.
People mostly stopped downloading music cause spotify is simply more comfortable and relatively cheap. That is the only way to stop pirating, by making it so cheap and easy that pirating is not worth it for most people. However, there will always be people without any money that will have an interest in pirated content.

for music you can just use software like SoulseekQT, which is basically like napster? You can turn off that others can download from you, but there are high qualities for most somewhat known songs (meaning 320 kbps or higher quality). Lots of Flac music files are files are 100MB there, which I guess must be high quality). I do not personally hear much difference, nor care that much about if i listen to music if it has super high quality. I guess I just quickly get used to it, similar to how I so easily get used to a higher resolution or better screen or bigger tv . Within a few days I am just used to it and do not notice the difference. Howoever, that's just me of course...

 

The problem with Windows is Microsoft decides the market, and all the software developers have to follow. However, if nobody kept updating Windows they would instead have to adapt some other way, or go out of business.
Personally though? I've got my setup exactly the way I want it, and I use this sandbox programme that prevents me from making changes by mistake! All I have to do is switch it off and on again and voila, everything is back to the same position as put it. I can of course make changes should I want to, but it is rare for me to do so.

As for music, Flac files are lossless, meaning they are a step down in size from a wav file but without any loss of quality. So for use in mixes then that is a good choice.

Even Ableton though. I have 8 9 10 and 11 on different computers. 10 is the most used for me because it hosts VST 2 and 3, and can also save copy to mp3. I keep version 8 because that was the last version to allow still photos to be used to make a video out of them (great for you tube) 11 I keep just because of Arturia Minilab 3 plays nicely with it.

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I am old enough to remember when the Commodore 16 came out . I use to sell them, as well as the 64!

 

I'm still using Irate Bey I haven't been in the know for years.

 

Irate Bey is like a bad case of herpes: It always finds its way back.

 

Do you remember the Dragon 32, or maybe the 380Z?

 

Oh I definitely remember the Dragon 32. I had one. I also remember the Oric, the ZX31 Spectrum and The Atari 400/800

 

Silly wabbit... Windows (11 at least) has a "dongle" - it's called a TPM module. But there were already ways around it before the win11 RTM even hit the pavement.

 

Honestly, I mostly use Cracks to monitor the state of the industry.

As a plugin developer myself, I like to see what everyone else is doing. My own work is improved by being able to download and see what everyone else is up to!

 

If the newest games can't be cracked how many Gamers won't be buying newer hardware needed to play them and then the PC companies and accessory makers will be bitching because of their losses in sales, Don't they realize there would be these repercussions, it will create far more losses for many other businesses. If the game developers weren't so damn greedy with such exorbitant high game prices there wouldn't be any problems, but no they want to become multi billionaires from each and every stupid game immediately upon release. For myself I don't give a damn I never play any games, but my children and grandchildren do, they play the online games that keep you paying forever to keep playing them, just insane. I preferred it when they played console games, I'd buy them a game and it kept them busy for quite some time without any BS additional fees.

 

I think we decided as society that music is commoditized and socialized, the economic incentive to make music is basically dead, AI is close, but somehow someone expects that there should be suckers who pay thousands of dollars for tools to make music? Everything will be more and more open source and free, there's no drm or cloud based crap that can stick.

The tools we have for free today are much more powerful than what the hitmakers of the past had. We have world hits done with just 3 unedited loops from the same sample pack (Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso). Ultimately we're talking about algorithms and electric circuits, the hardware world today makes sense only on recording (no latency) and only for big studios, and even there, it's about to end as tech moves forward and the outboard brands are switching to software and cheap hardware (pretty much all of them even the big premium brands), as for software in few years we went from plugins at $200 a pop to $30-50 a piece and constant freebies and discounts, it's the only way if the want to survive, the last shots.

We're talking about algorithms and samples, you can put all the fancy graphics in front and anti piracy nonsense, but you can't copyright math and (programming) language. Airwindows and TDR guys create much better algorithms for free than SSL and Softube. Yay I really wanna spend 300$ on yet another compressor that does what all the others do pretty much the same way and aliases like shit because you're hiring bad coders and engineers just because there's a famous brand sticked on it. It's over. AI and open source, that's the future.

The day that also UAD and ilok get finally totally cracked will come. It will look something like Adobe CC software subscription being busted.

 

How should developers pay bills when not enough people buy their stuff or support them in other ways.
Instead of supporting the developer people rather pay money to download fast.

Conclusion:
All Audio Developers should switch their business to host files.

 

Last edited: Sep 3, 2024