Reason studios demonstrates why piracy is completely justified

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• Being a Linux desktop user makes me a masochist? That explains a few things.

• I have $500 software + plugins on a laptop that never connects to internet. The setup is thousands of dollars and took ages to setup and get everything connected. A ton of us who have music production software do this.

• Best part is that all that DRM systems only affect legitimate paying users and you actually get better user experience on pirated software.

• I thinking how will court ended, if this customers sue this companies for stealing their property.

• With an extra step, you can take this further. All software and digital media you can have a better experience of if you pirate it, because it's free. That sounds like I'm just being edgy, but there's a real, revolutionary point under there. We have the technological means for absolute digital abundance. The creativity which could be unleashed by our species if everyone could access everything digital to free. The problem is, of course, that developers, creators, artists, etc. need an income to live, because there's lots of things which we can't infinitely replicate (food, housing, etc.). That's a problem of our economic system, and finding an answer to that side of things should be an imperative. Even where we can't infinitely replicate things like we can digital goods, the costs of production have radically diminished over the past few decades.

  Wages used to rise along with this until the neoliberal era. But ultimately, that was a political choice. Our world doesn't need to be like this. John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the last century, whose ideas helped fuel the post-war prosperity across the West (even if he wasn't without his flaws), thought we'd be working like 14 hour weeks by now. The trend was obvious. Things get cheaper, so we have to work less. But that didn't happen. Things got cheaper to make, but the gains from that went into the pockets of a small number of people. Along with that, our economy got filled with, as David Graeber words it, bullshit jobs. Busywork because our society made the political choice that people should work rather than be able to reap the benefits of productive gains which our species has collectively produced. We have been robbed.

  Digital piracy (something I barely do now because I'm lazy and have the income to buy things) is so cool because it is a little vision of the world we could have. Of course, it's unlikely food will ever be as easy to replicate as an mp3, but on the spectrum of how easy things are to make, we keep moving ever more towards the infinite replicability side of the spectrum.

  When I was a kid growing up on the internet a huge influence on my politics was Pirate Bay. Not even necessarily the individual politics of the people behind it, but just the experience. There I was, sat in my bedroom, on the jank ass computer which was the only one my parents could afford. I had no financial means of buying music software, films, whatever. Maybe I would get birthday money once a year, and that I would want to spend on hardware. But I had an internet connection. Realising I could just download things for free was incredible. Today, I make money performing my own music. There is no way I would have the skills I have today without pirating FL Studio and whatever else I was using back in the day. A random kid in their bedroom being able to access creative tools like that was amazing. Today, I buy the DAWs I use, because I can and because it's less worry. The system has been successful in pushing me with these little incentives, not least of all the threat of legal action. But piracy is nonetheless a small glimpse of the world we could have if we actually put the technological capacities of our species to good use. Right now it's used to create artificial scarcity, steal our time with bullshit jobs, and enrich a tiny number of people. It's way more than just whether a customer is able to continue to use the product they bought, even if your point here is nonetheless sound and based.

• Piracy was falling……because we consumers felt it was not worth it with all the conviences…..now…those companies are encouraging us to pirate?

• @rossmanngroup Have you tried Openshot video editor for Linux? It supports GPU encoding and decoding also unlike it's Windows version. It's free and Open sourced.

• Stop registering products. You become the keeper, with obligations to the registration company.

• Piracy shifts the power balance from the corporation to the consumer. It is a great and wonderful thing and a testament to justice.

• you may explain the ins and outs of this, complete with data sheets and understandable terminology to a 4-year-old with all the patience in the world to make sure they understand,…. and they will still go "I pay for what I want!"
  ….people want to pay …. so, let them pay.

• Think…
  You buy a dishwasher and cant use it propper, because you don not live in the house "THEY" think you should live in. Or you move in a new home and than it stops working because of the new home.
  The companie´s are pirats. They need to be judge.

• It is really sad to see people buy a software, and then download a crack version as the crack works better.

• Parallels can go eff off btw.

• "..
  Yo-ho, all together
  Hoist the colors high
  Heave ho, thieves and beggars
  Never shall we die
  …"

• I bought a perpetual license for my Adobe Photoshop 3 it's 9 now, this customer needs to send them a letter from a lawyer like I did in 2015 when Adobe tried the same thing.

• Am I from Eastern Europe? Yes!
  Do I use pirated content? Absolutely. If I get sued someday, police would probably break in my home.
  Do I feel I'm doing something unethical? Yes, when the product is amazing and the time I spend with it is memorable and helped me grow as a person.
  The best example I can give is Image-Line's FL Studio. Buy once – get lifetime updates! I don't care what people say about which DAW makes what better. This is something they will never surpass, because it's been like that for over 20 years!

• “He paid money for software he is not going to be able to use anymore.” A decade ago. If you want people to spend their lives designing software you can’t expect them to only get paid once.

• I stopped paying for YouTube premium recently. The app crashes all the time, the download playback features don’t work and it’s kind of pricey.

  I got a video ripper instead and it does everything YouTube does but better and you can even play videos while doing other stuff at the same time instead of just running in the background. Tech is busted.

• Yarrrrr

• Isnt changing the EULA so people cant use the product a breach of contract ??

• Even on Windows DaVinchi Resolve is very stable, and if it DOES crash, the most likely reason is you're running it on a total potato and you're just decking all your memory, like myself lmao

• THE ONE PIECE
  THE ONE PIECE IS REAL

• This is the reason I stopped paying not just Reason Studios but Waves plugins as well. Waves has a "version" of plugins. I paid for Waves V5 plugins because I was using cracked versions of the plugin I ended up buying for a while because I tried the product for an "extended period" of time. I wanted to show appreciation for the devs that made it, so I bought it. Then waves v6 came out & all of my plugins from waves stopped working. Needless to say I will never pay for their plugins ever again. Same goes for reason. Also, its funny to me that you made a video so recently as this is the first year (2023) in the 7-10 years of scouring torrent sites for plugins, daws ect. that I have seen the current version of "Reason" on any of the torrent sites. Little sidenote, R2R's notepad doc says that the "reason" people were having trouble cracking any Reason stuff all this time is because Reason has been using such an extremely outdated form of protection for their software that no one thought to try cracking with this very old protection type. was simply overlooked lol. Of course R2R figured this all out! LOVE R2R!!!!!!!!

• Great rant and was caught in shock at your Final Fantasy 9 reference. Nice!

• Wait till he hears about car/truck diagnostic apps licencing. I sailed the seas for them a while, and i always have to get a seperate laptop with no internet connection, and once i decided to pay for it. I payed like 1000€ and the prpcess of licencing IS THE SAME AS WHEN YOU PIRATE IT. I asked my friend from germany (that owns a licenced bmw shop) what he does, and he deadass told me he payes 20€ a month to some ukrainian pirates to remotely update his software every tike new updates come out.

  Its 21st century, and it is easier to pay foreign pirates to update and maintain software then to genuenly buy a product.

• These people just need to sue, theres no way they can twist the definition of lifetime or perpetual in a courtroom. If its established that the license was purchased with the expectation that it was a lifetime license that could never be revoked then the company is in clear breach of contract.

• @rossmanngroup
  try a different DE plasma is buggy maybe it will help with the plugins idk (i use good old xfce)

• You've offered a compelling analysis of how company policies can inadvertently incentivize piracy by degrading the customer experience. I'd like to elevate this discussion to a broader perspective:

  Consider a shoemaker in a village of 100 people. Once everyone has shoes, the shoemaker's primary business – selling new shoes – diminishes, leaving only repairs. Eventually, he may reach a point where he advises customers to buy new shoes rather than repair the old ones. This might be a genuine assessment or a strategy to sustain his business. Either way, it's a natural part of the lifecycle of physical goods.

  Software, however, doesn't naturally degrade like shoes. It faces technological obsolescence, but not physical wear and tear. This difference poses a unique challenge for software companies seeking sustainability. While I'm not in favor of planned obsolescence, it's important to recognize the dilemma faced by these companies. If a software product never becomes obsolete and requires no further purchases, the company faces a predicament similar to our hypothetical shoemaker.

  Yet, there's a balance to be struck. Companies need to sustain their business, but they also have a responsibility to their customers. Ethical practices and consideration of the customer experience are paramount. Perhaps the solution lies in finding a middle ground, where companies offer significant upgrades or new features that justify new purchases, rather than enforcing obsolescence.

  What are your thoughts on balancing this economic necessity with ethical business practices and customer satisfaction?

• I made my first brand new car purchase in 2016. I hadn't driven in 4 years. I wanted to purchase a durable dependable vehicle that could be maintained for 4 years by servicing the car every 3 thousand miles. I had driven used 70s through 2004 Chrysler Dodge Plymouth and Amc cars because I had a unlimited supply of free parts. The only exception was a 175 dollar 78 Ford Grenada that lasted me one year. And a 375 dollar 1972 Chevy C-10 truck with a 350 v8 9 miles to the gallon lasted me 2 years. I wanted something that would last at least 10 years. I chose a Nissian Versa Note. Bad decision, if I dug a little deeper I would have discovered they have weak transmissions that break down in 13 to 135 thousand dollars. It was in and out of the Nissian dealership at least 20 times in 36 months and the transmission died in less than 80 thousand miles. I had spent over 7 thousand dollars in repairs not covered by warranty. These cars were so bad that in order to avoid a car buy back almost demanded by federal government regulations. That I received a 12 hundred dollar rebate on the defective radiator and 12 hundred for the crap transmission. I sold my car for junk 800 dollars. With 32 hundred dollars. I bought a 2001Toyota mini van and a 2001 Toyota Echo. They both lasted longer than the Brand new Nissian I will never buy a new car again.😮😊

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