User blog comment:Fingersoop/Someone linked me to an illegal Vocaloid download host/@comment-3076833-20140526180320/@comment-53539-20140526202654

Most know its very much illegal but don't care.

I was a pirate once... Not of Vocaloid, but of others things back when the net was less tight and things were easy to find with 0% chance of getting caught. While I eventually turned around and have since ceased on pirating anything, from experience the issue is a bigger problem then telling someone off. I remember a typical statement from someone in regards to comic/manga scans "why buy the actual thing when I can download it for free?". I've never forgotten this as this sort of stood out. This was in the One Piece fandom, they didn't care because Oda "earns too much already".

I remember Planty attempting to convince everyone here on the wikia and on VO doing this was "safe", along with Vocaloid first and the ap versions of Vocaloid... This is why I'm hard on Planty myself, because they THEN went on to pass the hidden demo of Anon and Kanon they found on their website around the fandom, a demo version that was never announced and likely now never will be. Even the guys at VO had a go at them for that one when they tried to defend their actions...

The issue of pirating isn't something that will go away overnight, nor repair itself because you removed one link, but at least it hinders the spread of people falling into temptation. I remember someone posting a download of the number of times each Vocaloid was downloaded a few years back. While most Vocaloids got only a few thousand downloads, VY2v3 was the only one to reach 10,000s sector, I think it even went up to 100,000+. When you see a download of a pirate version, and you know Miku sold 60,000+ units, all you can do is compare. :-/