Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20180322113157/@comment-25648422-20180413064356

Angel Emfrbl wrote:

The number of producers with illegal vocaloids is often high in areas such as the Philippines, China, Mexico, etc. As someone who is a Filipino and lives in the Philippines, allow me to say this.

Philippines doesn't make it to the Top 20 Countries for Software Piracy and License Misuse list (in the case of 2017, which is the most recent so far) or probably to any other piracy rate statistics or lists. Additionally, from what I observed, the number of VOCALOID fans in the Philippines does not seem to be really big compared to other countries (ex. United States of America, Japan, Spain, Russia) and the number of VOCALOID producers in the Philippines is also pretty small. Not to mention, the estimated population of the Philippines as of 2018 is about 106,000,000.

Don't get me wrong though. I don't deny that there are some Filipinos who download or who have downloaded VOCALOID for free (and I don't mean the trials). It just so happens that the Filipino VOCALOID community ain't really big.