Propellerhead ReBirth & copying

[Curtin, Steven D (Steven)]

I'll chime in here as someone who lost their job because of illegal copying,
as the software engineer at Passport Designs (RIP) in 1992 who was in charge
of Alchemy.  Passport didn't start keying their disks until it was too late-
for a while we had something like two legal copies in all of NYC.  If you
want to see innovative software survive and continue to develop, please pay
for it. Remember all the time they're saving you programming it yourself
(even if you could).

On the other hand, one thing I like about all of us building our own synths
now is that we can have very strange and original designs that don't have to
sell 10,000 copies in order to be successful.  This also cultivates a
freeware and "copyleft" atmosphere which is very healthy and creative, so
long as we're not trying to make a living at it.

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Steven Curtin  
Lucent Technologies Microelectronics
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sdcurtin at lucent.com
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> ----------
> From: 	Ethan Duni[SMTP:eduni at ucsd.edu]
> Sent: 	Monday, November 16, 1998 3:37 PM
> To: 	synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: 	Re: Propellerhead ReBirth & copying
> 
> 
> >If
> >the propellerheads are so worried about craks then they need to make it
> with a
> >com port or parallel port dongle and raise the price.
> 
> -how would that help? it'd STILL get cracked the day it was released and
> LESS people would buy it cause it'd cost more (and it's a pain in the ass
> to
> be messing with a dongle on the back of your machine).
> 
> Ethan
> 
>