Talk:VOCALOID Piracy/@comment-95.67.106.110-20130503113419/@comment-95.67.106.110-20130504072520

2Bunai82: 1. I know that this is not UTAU wiki, but isn't admins the same? I heard that some UTAU's was banned just only because of Pocaloid-usage (and that's weird)

2. excuses? i don't feel any guilt, post was about critisizing Yamaha, and yes i know that this is illegal 3. Galaco is also trial, she's always trial, Yamaha just providing one key after another, but it looks like newest trial will be the last (till the end of October), and all winners will lost their "Galaco", so she can't really free even in legit way 4. Production of any serious game cost much more money and have more copyrights problems (for example GTA), but games have more popularity and they sells by million copies just for 10$ and creators have their profit with the quantity. If some products are not popular - the only way to return money with profit is pushing prices higher. So it's not about how much vocaloid-production costs, but about marketing things ;) 5. yep, i know, like Cubase or FL Studio - but it's in theory, practically most of users are not adults, or\and using vocaloid as a toy, same with UTAU - it's free but it have same level as vocaloid (excluding many marketing things), and often same people have interest to work with both (utau and vocaloid) engines 6. With V3 it's not possible anymore to prove illegal usage of vocaloid, unless contributor will say about it directly, and nobody ban them on Youtube even if they say about it)

nope, my logic is not about excuses or free usage, but about Yamaha, they can improve situation, they can help to buy vocaloids directly from Japan without resellers, they can put more efforts on worldwide marketing to get more popularity and more sales, they can put more attention at least on english-translation of providing stuff and fill english vocaloidstore with same stuff as japanese vocaloidstore, etc...But they won't do that! They stopped updating V3-engine and moved to Cubase-version, i think they won't support non-professional users, they don't care about it, that's the problem. Sorry to say that (i know that utau-fans will not agree with this), but vocaloids sounds more interesting (or with more realistic voice) for many people, and i can't call UTAU as a alternative software comparing to vocaloid. In case if i'm wrong - why people using illegal vocaloids intead of free UTAU? ;) Situation is not so easy to say something kind a : "this is bad (illegal) or good (legit or free)", that discussion always be complicated for usual users