Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25577599-20150125223704/@comment-92.52.234.48-20150225223143

Hello,

If private people use bootleg Vocaloid, it can only be good for Yamaha and CFM, because Vocaloid popularity has been dropping for at least the last half year or so, thus they need new influx of users and talent ASAP, legal or not. They will get hooked and spend arm and leg on appends later on. (Wasn't Circus or Crusher caught pocaloiding many years ago and now they are the official demo makers for Cyber Diva?)

Yamaha's eventual aim is to make Vocaloid tech good enough for professional use, so synthetic singing can air on radio and TV. That will be a huge gold mine for them, but current VCL income is just a drop in ointment for a corporate giant like Yamaha.

Think of Microsoft, who couldn't care less about piracy, as long as WIndows kept gaining market share. As soon as they owned much of the world's IT, they started to care, but then Linux arrived and M$ started to look the other way again, because a computer running bootleg Win hurts them less than a computer running free Linux.

Of course CFM is smaller than Y, but their main money stream comes from concerts, merchandising and media rights, rather than box or DL sales of the avatars for producers.

Anyhow, a bootleg producer can become a paying customer later on, but one who never gets to try it for lack of 150USD will never get started. There hasn't been a real big Miku hit (both very good musically and very popular) since Senbonzakura. Talent influx is needed now, they can be reformed later. 92.52.234.48 22:31, February 25, 2015 (UTC)