Talk:VOCALOID Piracy/@comment-68.83.158.50-20130702180445/@comment-53539-20130702183610

Well lets just clarify one thing; Vocaloid is NOT a toy. Its a professional software, and therefore is intended for users who want to make music as a hobby or career. Its not intended for children to play with like a doll or something. If your buying vocaloid, your buying it as an investment - not a play thing. :-/

Many fans actually have no issue with other fans using illegal vocaloids if they have the intention of actually buying a vocaloid in the future. I've seen people talking in the fandom of using illegal versions to test out a vocaloid before they commit to see if they can use a particular voice in the absence of a actual demo. They do, generally, end up a vocaloid out of this, its just they were trying to figure out which of them to spend the money they had on.

In the terms of the wikia, the wikia can't do certain things. Supporting illegal vocaloids are one of those things. However, some of us editors dont't necessary follow this as per strict as this, I for one know enough of illegal software versions to know some good comes out of them as well as some bad. If not for the issue of the ones that won't buy vocaloid at all so long as they can get hold of it for free, there would be no against at all. :-/