Talk:VOCALOID Piracy/@comment-4538784-20130419214350/@comment-53539-20130420105001

For the record, we have a difficult time with a fan called "Ricardo" who used Pocaloid back when that was the main version of Team Ass's software.

We'd actually used his songs on the site, not realising he was using Pocaloid. Eventually, someone pointed out and an investigation revealed all his songs where using Pocaloid, he actually owned no legal versions of the software. There were other issues which I'd sum up... Illegal Lola and Meiko downloads... Releasing songs which had copyrighted material for free download... But when we confront him and told him we can't support him, what we got has remained on of our two biggest incidents of fan stupidity within the fandom.

We got lied to, he hid the Pocaloid usage, pretended he had done nothing wrong. But the end of a 1 month talk with him, of which he "retired" (it was a lie) we had had enough and had to draw the line on Pocaloid forever. Its still enforced today. You had to be there to witness it and if you had, you'd have understood why the wiki has its stance. It protects us and makes sure we obey policies set by the wiki-staff.

On a secondary level, it also protects the producers who actually DO use Team Ass's versions of the software. People attack those who own illegal versions, Circus-P is a prime example, having long abandoned the use of such things he is still attacked for his past actions. Since we attract fans in from all areas, trolls come here too, being openly a Team Ass supporter if we link to you knowing you use their software... We're at fault if you get abuse. Its a responsibility for us to make sure we don't make life hard on producers, though its a producer's choice if they choose to be dishonest Versus honest, that we have no responsibility over. :-/