This message showed when I entered the serial specifically made for pirates. Right now feeling nothing but respect for plugin devs. Next month Imma buy this plugin 100% fixed, need it or don’t need it doesn’t matter anymore lol.
I feel piracy for demo purposes is fully justified if you buy it after you like it. People always say vote with your wallet but it’s more like gambling with your wallet if you don’t get to see and touch the product before you make the purchase. Giving proper demos should be more common with digital media.
On a related note, I’m very glad I pirated Starfield.
I’m thinking that I might buy it once we have creation kit access and mods that add story and flesh out the game a la Fusion City Rising and companion mods for Fallout 4
At that point I’d rather pirate the game and donate to mod developers who are putting endless hours of unpaid time into free mods.
Demos used to be a lot more common. It used to be the norm for most games. Now it’s extraordinary.
Indie devs seem to be bringing them back. Played quite a few demos recently. Hopefully the trend continues.
PlayStation making you pay for their highest sub tier just to access demos.
To be honest, that would make me pay for the plugin.
Unfathomably based
I had a colleague who would buy legal versions of software and then shelve them while using pirated cracks because he hated the EULAs.
I do this with games. A lot of games dont even really get a demo anymore. So its gambling to buy it…
I pirate the games and if i like it i buy it. Generally ill keep playing the pirated version unless it has a multiplayer i want to play as well.
There’s a FOSS companion app for AirPods on Android and some features are “locked” until you press “Activate” and choose “I’ve spent all of my money on AirPods” as a payment method.
Now i wanna buy that piece of Software, so i k ow somebody can Pirate it and does not feel Bad about it.
I can’t find the video, but I remember someone at Ableton said they pretty much had the same view of Live piracy. If someone pirates it, they weren’t willing to spend the money on it, but perhaps they will be willing to in the future.
If a thief makes a copy of your very money that you use then your work is worth them copying your money
I still remember Zoë Keating commenting on torrents of her album on the pirate bay back in the day. Free marketing tbh.
This is fantastic. I’ve no use for this software, but I would absolutely purchase it if I did.
If you donate, dev doesn’t have to pay taxes. If you buy, dev becomes more popular because one more sale.
Advice?
Just because you give money to someone or something it doesn’t make it a charitable organization that doesn’t get taxed.
do both
Why shouldnt the dev pay taxes?
If there’s no return service you don’t have to pay taxes in germany, afaik, ianal.
Similar attitude by the HoI devs caused me to buy HoI2 and every new release after that.
HOL?
Uppercase i. Hearts of Iron
Oh haha, yeah that makes more sense
True Pianos is a really solid piano VST by the way. It’s been years since I used it, but it was really good back when I was dabbling with this stuff.
I just bought a license just because
As an adult, I pay for winrar purely because it helped me so much for free as a kid (especially pirating other software).
More devs should be this understanding of piracy. So should companies in general.
Asking nicely is a lot better than hitting. More flies with honey than with vinegar.
