"dropped off the site" == dmca

Personally I could care less if all the 3rd party nebula stuff all dropped off the face yesterday. A great deal of it is redundant and not worth the drive/optical space to store/archive it. Some of it is ok while a lot of it is flotsam. The "nebula tech" isn't used by other devs because it is flawed and somewhat backward and obtuse to use in a lot of cases. Grab the best of it, leave the rest, and if it doesn't work shit-can it and move on. Nothing more to see here...

The whiners here complaining about warez ending the world on a warez talk forum while they fail to validate the reason why they are here in the first place, is rather comical. Warez have been around since the internet became available to the general public and not just for academics. They are here to stay and are never going away. Either get used to the idea or go away.

 

Last edited: Apr 19, 2026 at 8:10 PM

It isn't used by other devs because it's not open source, nor for sale. It's a proprietary tech that's unavailable to anyone outside of Acustica unless you bought their N.A.T. sampler years ago, or are an official 3rd party dev.

So, outside of the company that owns it, only very few individuals are still able to produce libraries. And not one of them is trying to get rich with that. I would equate this as indie musicians, doing their thing hoping for some people to support them. Just like most music, their stuff end up pirated. Those who like them will buy their libs. While some will try the lib because it's been shared and end up buying it. And some won't spend a dime either way.

Such is life. But you can't be mad at them either if they ask for support if you use their libs.