Talk:VOCALOID Piracy/@comment-99.110.54.240-20140127172724/@comment-53539-20190406140320

Because its the same software.

Pocaloid is just the pirated version, meaning all security codes were removed, etc.

Its otherwise going to be identical except one or two minor things, sometimes like visual edits to make it more obvious its a fake version (Pocaloid2 for example). You should be able to use both versions and get more or less the same results.

In fact the only big difference is Pocaloid is immoral to use and your a criminal if you use it. However, your unlikely to get in trouble for using it as no one chases after those who do. *shrugs* And if it leads to people buying Vocaloid, I sometimes feel its not doing harm. ITs only basically when people use it and then go down the road of "why buy the real version when this pirated version is free" you have a problem. Some Vocaloids literally struggle to sell and pirating no matter what people say, does harm official products. In the early days of the net (for a rough estimation, I say pre-2005), the pirating rates of music and software were so high that it particularly impacted official software. Sales have gone up since iTunes and other sites came along, such as game services such as Stream.