I'm so sorry, I haven't ment it in offensive way. Sh*t, that's last thing I need in my pathetic life ... to argue with a genius who wrote my favorite synth ever.Urs wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2019 12:31 pmThis is a very bad point. His stuff doesn't live in isolation, when stuff is cracked it affects the whole industry. When Waves/iLok got cracked a few years ago, several companies went tits up, some barely survived. If rent-to-own is some kind of pathetic excuse to not protect intellectual property, then... don't let me finish that sentence.
Of course intellectual property should be protected. The point I'm trying to make is, that the target of rent-to-own model aren't software pirates. It's the people who despite their wallets are trying to not be pirates. Yes, the software gets more exploitable, but at that point it usually already exists cracked somewhere, so the only real damage here is done to the guy, who would like to slowly but legally pay for the plugin but has no option to do so.