![]() And, I did initially "borrow" Logic Pro 8 from Apple. Would I have bought it, now that I can afford software, had my initial music development not been fostered by copies of software I could not afford? No. Now, I'm working on a paid-for Logic Pro 8. Then I got an MBox, got ProTools, and paid for every upgrade up to 7.3 LE. I recorded a lot of good work in it, but most importantly, I learned a lot. As I got more and more advanced and the limits of the software were starting to stifle me and SX came out, I pirated it. While other kids asked for MP3 players or whatever else for their birthdays, I asked my father to buy me the sequencer for my birthday. I'm 22 now, but when I started making music at 16, it was on a paid-for version of Cubase 5 VST. In other words, pirate software actually helps spark sales and attract potential clients. I have a lot of cool gear and an ever increasing collection of soft synths (Papen's Predator is in the post as I type). But because it was possible, I was able to get into music production in a big way and have since spent tens of thousands of Francs on both hardware and software. This was a long process that simply wouldn't have been possible for a 16 year old, if not for pirate software. I went from Fruity Loops (now FL Studio), to Reason to Live to Logic, all cracked, before finally settling down and buying myself a nice shiny copy of Logic Pro 7 (and then the upgrade to 8). I first got into electronic music when I was 16. And what constitutes a crime in one world doesn't necessarily constitute one in the other (the more astute among you may even note that physical and intellectual property are in fact logically opposed). However, to confuse physical theft with copyright 'theft', is to perform a weak analogy/appeal to popularity fallacy: Sure, a lot of people chose to equate the physical world and the world of ideas, but the two are fundamentally very different (in terms of causality, etc.). Stealing hardware is another matter entirely-it actually constitutes as physical loss. Now Logic may be a quality product, but I doubt Apple are trying to market it to penniless students (or, indeed, they would be selling it for pennies). It's simply money not made, either because they priced their product to high for the intended user base, or produced a shoddy product. To consider it a loss for the company is absurd. If someone doesn't want to spend money on a product, that's his business. ![]()
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