Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-69.29.91.129-20141129083917/@comment-25070303-20141207175930

Adept-eX wrote: There's something called intellectual property and copyright. The people doesn't get that free source software and a free download software. If you check the software licences, most of them forbid the copy, modification or reverse engineering of the program without the respective autorithation.

Cracking Azuki and Matcha's voices into VOCALOID software breaks the licence of BOTH programs.

And although it may exists a legal vacuum or loophole, still it's unethical and harmful. As Angel said, that kind of bad practices always produces some damage. Haven't you considered that maybe the reason why the app Utayomi 575 isn't longer available was due the people cracking the VBs from the app? I thought that was the reason, but it could have been something else. The obvious sometimes isn't the answer. I am with Planty on this situation though. I think that if someone only uses them for covers and original songs and makes absolutely no profit or uses them for commercial use then it's okay. It's the same thing as if someone edited a game and gave it out for free. As long as that supplier doesn't get any profit, it is called "fair use".