Talk:Sweet ANN/@comment-153.107.192.203-20181120212500/@comment-53539-20181224162555

^Vocatone used PowerFX as a distributor, they are not a distributor themselves and produce vocals to be sold by others. Discounting Ruby because no one was really involved from Vocatone in truth... As only Syo and Anders touched the vocaloid. The only vocal they've produced is Oliver in reality despite saying they have other vocals. With PowerFX gone they'll find it harder to sell Voclaoids which is the price we pay going forward.

Bplats is not involved with Vocaloid anymore, they were just a PR group hired to handle V3 and the VYs initial release. Their contract ended sometimes in early V4. About the time VOCALOID NET ended its services and VOCALOID STORE closed.

PowerFX still gets money from their old vocals because they already paid to produce them and are allowed to sell them so long as Yamaha lets them. They just aren't making anymore and when the licensing codes distribution ends, they will stop selling them when they cease to have any codes left, which is what happened to Lola, Leon and Miriam for Zero-G. So the fact their not producing anymore vocaloid has 0 impact on their old ones. Even if they did cease, CFM has the rights to distribute them in Japan and on Sonicwire as Zero-G and PowerFX had to go to CFM to get to Yamaha.