Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-69.29.91.129-20141129083917/@comment-53539-20141216195457

NoviStarsRule wrote: I know it's bad and I never said it's okay. I said I don't think it is that bad. THAT bad. That=keyword. I don't think people should use them though but I am not the boss of the world so. (I changed my mind about people using them. I know think it not okay but still.) Come again? Vocaloid is as expansive as some TVs sold in stores, and you'd go to jail for stealing a TV. While I do have some sympathy myself, I still stand by that a true fan invests something back into what their a fan of.

Bare in mind that the wikia can't side with illegal activities, so despite the editors differences of opinions, generally its going to be "anti"... The whole point of the wikia is to promote all Vocaloids, so this means we have to say "buy the software". Other places like VO forums? Their "neutral". So you'd not get so much hassle there. But this doesn't change the crime. I'm just saying, you shouldn't be too surprised at the reaction. Even editors who are "neutral" themselves may not necessary take that stance here because of the wikia policy.

You can't always therefore blame any of us for reacting towards anything that supports illegal activity.

"THAT" may be a keyword, but the fact its there in the statement to begin with does mean you would still have a level of agreement with the act of theft of Vocaloid, if the circumstances were "agreeable" to you. Even then, bare in mind that with Vocaloids, they have to meet X target number of sales per vocal to be "successful". How many % of Vocaloid users pirating Vocaloid are going to then buy it legally? I can't tell you a number, but if VY2 had the same number of downloads as purchases, Miku would not be the no.1 seller Vocaloid. I'd estimate myself that only one in every 50 downloads is legal myself and I'd call that a "understatement". We're not in the millions of downloads sector, but we are in the hundreds of thousands... :-/