Talk:VOCALOID Piracy/@comment-38493135-20190311144408/@comment-53539-20190311154611

These days the interpretation of "Pocaloid" is "Pirated Vocaloid". "Pocaloid" gets attached to all versions of illegal Vocaloid anyway even when people aren't referring to that because its generally used for any illegal Vocaloid version and you know the moment a fan mentions "Pocaloid" what they mean.

Originally "Pocaloid" was just a possible spelling alternative to "Vocaloid" as "P" can often transfer into Japanese with no difference in it to "V" and "B". It wasn't ness. used to refer to the illegal version, it was also a bad translation along with "Bocaloid". "Len", "Rin" and "Luka" got the same thing ("Ren", "Lin" and "Ruca/Ruka"). Its a similar situation to "L" and "R". Doesn't 100% work out for all English sounds of the 3 letters though, "Ph" and "F" can often have the same situation for example.

Since there is no legit "free" version of Vocaloid except VOCALOID first, all versions are illegal regardless. So you can treat them all alike.