My ‘mind’ was never that this doesn’t ever happen, it was that it is unlikely to happen a majority of the time and also vs. just having a normal paywall this whole back-alley lie, steal. cheat your way into going legit later is not a marketing strategy to be encouraged when you already have a conventional method of obtaining the software at a VERY reasonable range of pricing options…
You never have to use cracked software any more than you have to be an amateur music producer, but insofar as your examples are supposed to demonstrate how easy it is to get into music production without cracked software, I don’t they’re very good.
A young person starting out with nothing is not running a Mac, and is not dropping money on a Focusrite for a hobby he’s not tried. How many people run Linux? I run Linux and I don’t use it for audio. If you spend money on Mixbus and you want to produce electronic music…good luck with that.
I’m sure there are plenty of people who get into music production because they want to record their performances. Those people know what they want and how much they want to pay for it, but there are also plenty of people who have no idea how creative they are until they start messing around with some software they found lying around, or were given, or downloaded off the internet. They actually don’t care where they got it from; they just care what they can do with it.
I too find this discussion rather curious. It has always been possible to use Open Source software for free (which is as it should be IMO) and that has consistently made it difficult to fund development. The Open Source community has thrashed these issues out for as long as I’ve been involved (20 years or so). It is perfectly reasonable to raise funds by charging for binaries or support, but because of the way the GPL works it is inaccurate and unfair to describe this as a “paywall”. It is also rather mean to attempt to undermine efforts to raise funds for development. To then post about it on here is downright underhand, I’m not surprised Paul is upset. It’s also kind of weird to use archive.org for this purpose as its primary purpose is to share content rather than software. The Grateful Dead may have encouraged bootlegging, but generally charged for gigs and official releases because those shows cost a lot to put on. It just makes me sad when people don’t see the point in working together to achieve something good.
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