Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-69.29.91.129-20141129083917/@comment-53539-20141129123928

Planty-P made it known when he tried to say that if you own the legit V3 editor and 575 then it was "safe" to own them. Reality is you can only use them for 575 and cannot use them within V3 because they don't have a license that covers use within V3 itself. Never less he passed the information around which was annoying and by the time those who knew this was BS catch up with it, several VO'ers already had downloaded it.

you can't stop illegal Vocaloid, useless trying, you can only promote the hell out of legit users and places you can buy them and hope things improve.

Ironically I was going to talk about Planty-P today in a blog post since we had Jewel being mentioned on Ring and Lui's page, today someone linked to "more information". But individuals like Planty-P aren't responsible completely for people getting hold of the info, just responsible for sharing the urls so people can get hold of it. And even then, you can pass the link around, but its the person who clicks on the url and downloads, but an individual is held responsible for their own actions. If they choose not to download and instead support the legit users or companies, or if they choose to support illegal Vocaloid or its users... The impact is felt within the fandom and franchise.

It was not so long ago someone discovered near enough 100,000+ torrented versions of various Vocaloids had gone through pirate bay. Remember, a software had to just sell 1,000 copies once for it to be successful... 100,000 is 100 times that amount. And while some WILL buy the software legit thereafter, a good number thos of downloaders will never buy a actual copy of Vocaloid so long they can get hold of a "free" version.

So our problem is not 575 being cracked, but what happens to 575's software versions and the impact this has on their products sales. Quite frankly, as illegal as it is, I would turn a blind eye if some DID own legit V3 and 575 vocals. But if they do not, then I think its a clause for concern.

Bad practices = bad results

Good practices = good results. :-/