Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I feel piracy for demo purposes is fully justified if you buy it after you like it. People always say vote with your wallet but it's more like gambling with your wallet if you don't get to see and touch the product before you make the purchase. Giving proper demos should be more common with digital media.

To be honest, that would make me pay for the plugin.

Unfathomably based

I had a colleague who would buy legal versions of software and then shelve them while using pirated cracks because he hated the EULAs.

There's a FOSS companion app for AirPods on Android and some features are "locked" until you press "Activate" and choose "I've spent all of my money on AirPods" as a payment method.

This is the way

Smart developers, the make you feel good about pirating and then purchasing when you decide it suits your needs.

Some people just get it.

Big brain move, getting you to acknowledge that you’re pirating for when the lawsuit comes.

More people need to accept that piracy helps sales in the end, not take sales.

Remember when blizzard let you install a spawn copy on a friends computer so you could play together?

Also some DS games had similar where only one copy of the cartridge was needed to play with friends. Think one was mariokart DS

Would be a very popular move to letting people play together without everyone needing to be nickel and dimed(i feel like thats also a dated phrase now that i read it. Old gamers remember! Young gamers please help us find cool things, we are old and cant keep up!)

WinRAR attitude, I respect that o7

It kinda reminds me how Reaper DAW lets people have a really long trial version that I used for ages and then eventually decided to buy it when I could afford it. It's been great.

Good on them.

I had a similiar experience with Mount and Blade warband, I pirated to try it, bought it after and when it didn't work the folks at TaleWorlds helped me out fix the issue. Absolute lads.

Now i wanna buy that piece of Software, so i k ow somebody can Pirate it and does not feel Bad about it.

As an adult, I pay for winrar purely because it helped me so much for free as a kid (especially pirating other software).

This is fantastic. I’ve no use for this software, but I would absolutely purchase it if I did.

For me sometimes its enough if i can get a plugin demo with FULL functionality and without some sort of beep or white noise every x seconds, to buy a plugin if i like it after tests. And for more then a few days. But this is nice too

I just bought a license just because

I still remember Zoë Keating commenting on torrents of her album on the pirate bay back in the day. Free marketing tbh.

I can't find the video, but I remember someone at Ableton said they pretty much had the same view of Live piracy. If someone pirates it, they weren't willing to spend the money on it, but perhaps they will be willing to in the future.

More devs should be this understanding of piracy. So should companies in general.

Asking nicely is a lot better than hitting. More flies with honey than with vinegar.

Similar attitude by the HoI devs caused me to buy HoI2 and every new release after that.

True Pianos is a really solid piano VST by the way. It's been years since I used it, but it was really good back when I was dabbling with this stuff.

If you donate, dev doesn't have to pay taxes. If you buy, dev becomes more popular because one more sale.

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