EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi,

> That is a shame.  Here you are doing something that benefits many
> people who cannot afford or justify to pay for the good commercial libs
> and people taking advantage of your generosity.
Yep :-(

> All it does is make
> people who are as generous as yourself not want to do it in the future.
I've been on the verge of jacking it in on a few occasions coz of this but I
try to be pragmatic and just accept it as a (sad) fact of modern life.

> Hopefully, through educating people, things will change
That's the dream - if people could only realise the damage that piracy is
having on the industry (and how dire things are in some quarters directly as
a result of it), it would be nice to think that they would stop but sadly, I
doubt they will coz all they care about is themselves in the short-term.

> where it is possible to take advantage of someone, there will always be
> someone willing to do it.  Sad, indeed. :-(
Yep

> p.s. - I hope that it is worth your while to go after these guys or
> that you are at least able to stop them when you find these auctions.
I do my best. If I can contact them directly, I do and if they bother to
reply (which is - understandably - rare), they feign innocence.

Of course, this happens on eBay and, unfortunately, their mechanism for
reporting such violations is extremely convoluted and impersonal (on-line
forms that have to be filled in meticulously). If only there was a 'fraud
hotline' which you just call to report that some thieving bastard is at it
again trying to sell bootlegs of my intellectual property and have eBay jump
on the violator instantly but it's not that simple :-(

I don't even like to announce the violation at Hollow Sun to ward people off
it coz it only draws attention to the sale!

My only consolation is that these people sell 'em dirt cheap and only manage
to shift a handful and make like $25 at best. It's the principle that bugs
me.

> .... and Happy Holidays
You and yours too

Best regards,


Steve
http://www.hollowsun.com