Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6433273-20150105221153/@comment-53539-20150121172539

Dizzyzebra wrote: Out of curiousity, who was Ricardo? I think they were before my time. This might be a bit of a segway though, so PM me if the answer is too off-topic. orz Ricardo was a common name for a REALLY annoying producer who was caught making a UTAU of Lola. I found evidence on his youtube admitting that he knew it ws illegal and on his DA account. As soon as he found out I'd found his confession, the evidence disappeared... But I had screenshots because I knew it was going to happen. He had copyrighted songs on one of this 2 or 3 blogs, some of them big major singers like Lady Gaga, and he was handing out his covers for free. CFM also blocked his blogs, closed his Piapro account, etc, etc. I think the Japanese fans got wind too and tried to pull his account. There was Meiko Pocaloid on one blog, a Lola one too, but when pointed out he once again pulled them though no one got snaps of that stuff. The UTAU Lola was handed to 3 or 4 other folks, in fact I found one of them who openly admitted receiving it.

Then Stupidity pursued. He tried to defend his actions, blaming poverty, claiming all sorts including having bad english... Which lasted until someone who spoke his language took over and I don't think they had any luck even speaking in their common tongue... basically, he lied every sentance and made up a lot of BS statments, didn't see the flaws in his own logic, I swore every time he spoke a piece of my brain died... Like he claimed he couldn't afford real vocaloids and that he didn't have illegal vocaloids, but he had every Vocaloid until Ryuto at one point... He also tried and claimed that he didn't use Lola and that it was all special effects using some vocalist or something... but again I just pulled up the screenshots of his confession so that didn't go far. >_<

Other then the scale and involved being lesser, Ricardo was pretty much a dumber version of Planty.

I did most of the evidence gathering, he did the rest himself. We used to have a blacklist of producer we weren't allowed to link to, but its long gone. It caused too much drama and left us open to accusations, in hindsight I'm glad its gone as it caused tons of drama.

A few weeks later, ricardo returned after closing all blogs and youtube channels except that one blog with copyright material covers... But he was found out and the fandom attacked him again since his list of Vocaloid had grown which meant he was still at it... And we've not seen him since, least not in the open. Ricardo came along at the same time as the MMD's CNSE issues, and at one point she tried to defend herself by pointing out his innocence... this was the single most laughable moment because Ricardo was the most crooked Producer the western vocaloid fandom knew. It why I don't see Circus-P's illega as quite as big of an issue.

This is why Planty reminds me of him.