Propellerhead ReBirth

[BJ]

Mattias Nord wrote:
> 
> > You guys do know that the boys at propellerheads have made plenty of cash
> > off this thing, 'specially since they sold-out to Stienberg. Same thing is
> > happenning with my favorite soft-wav sequencer, the hammerhead. Both of
> > these products used to be free, then got sold to Stienberg. So you
> > knoe, anything that isn't shareware is generally CONSIDERED FAIR GAME
> > for craking in (the cypher communities) book. But I wouldn't know a damnd
> > thing about that.
> > (BTW, We did register our copy of Seq. 303 after a month or two of playing
> > with it.)
> 
> Ok.. Here´s my to cents..
> 
> Being a betatester of rebirth i will say that any talk about pirated
> P-Headsoftware WILL from now on be reported to propellerheads.
> IT IS ILLEGAL YOU KNOW!
> 
> Furthermore. Rebirth has _NEVER_ been freeware! AND propellerheads
> partnership with Steinberg is only natural because they´ve been old
> friends with eachother for aloooooong time.
> 
> Have som f***ing sense in your heads!
> 
> /Mattias
> 
> PS.
> I get realy pissed off when people don't have respect for others
> artwork!

Well,I think that this discussion got a bit out of hand here!

Regardless if one million people would report some pirates
or cracked P-head software i hardly doubt that P-Head would try to
do any thing about it!

Because the hard core fact is that the cost to nail someone down and
go to the court and to put the proof's in front of the judge are so
cumbersome and a hassle and stress and foremost a very costly process
that they would infact not do it!

I have some experience in this field that makes me pretty sure
on this matter.(Im not the pirater, im just a eye witness of an act)

For example we do have several cases in sweden where we can proof
that you as software pirat can in 99% of the cases dont have to
bother about go to jail!

One is the swedish instution Carolinska who happens to be one 
of the post's to nominating on of the Nobels prices!
This story made quite an issue in US to,
the Californian govenor was inwolved in the case!

They had copied a research software in several houndred copies
and used it for many years without paying for it.

This story went to court and they poked around to made
a cover up, the californian company lost the case even
after the police hade made a hit and secure all the computers
and all the proof that wenth along with the computers.
All that matters in this case was swedish justice had to think about
in the institutions best and in its world wide reputation!

To give you some hard facts.
No 1 are Chine, in piracy copying of software, 98%.
No 2 are sweden with 92 %

Americans was at no4 i think, dont remember exactly.
Once i made an surwey of this and found out that the biggest
pirates in sweden was the BIG companies like ASEA, Ericsson etc.

Any one involwed in the CAD/CAM software buissness do know
the isuess there so to speac that is a place where you
steal algorithms like nutheads,i do now one company
who have a reputation among R/D to allmost steal
as much all the code they can for their CAD/CAM PCB software.

We could discuss this piracy  issue untill the end of time and
for sure nothing would have changed at that point of time.

So happy piracying!!!

BJ
PS. I dont belive for one second that anyone at synt-diy
are 100% straight legal regarding to software piracying! :)