By Jamon
Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:02 pm
Right behavior is not determined by how much less wrong it is than another wrong. It is irrelevant how wrong some other behavior is. One cannot steal gum from a crooked business and say, "Theft is immoral? Look at him! He cons people out of millions!". The immoral behavior is isolated and cannot justify your own wrong actions. The judgment is on you, solely, not weighted by another. The reason is because, once you start pointing fingers, it leads to a chain reaction of immoral behavior, and the whole sliding scale drops lower making the world worse.
Akai doesn't do things right. There's no disputing that. They don't even appear to exist anymore. When I emailed them, I got a response from [email protected], "Akai Professional | Alesis | Numark | Ion Audio". What is that? It's a bunch of brand names with no solid coherent company behind them. Akai doesn't exist, it's just a shell name that is used by a mess of a corporation that is in control of the assets previously owned by Akai.
To determine what is right and wrong, you need to step through every cause and effect that occurs due to your action, including those that branch off from them. If you weigh what you're proposing carefully, you can see why it is wrong, where the costs go, why it makes things worse in the longrun in order to elevate your temporary gain. That's why it is wrong, not because Akai can't build anything quality, and is unable to maintain products or help customers.
Corporations have a specific procedure in place for a reason. It isn't necessarily what's best or easiest for you the customer, it's what makes it possible to organize large amounts of people and resources into something that works. If everyone disagrees with those procedures and takes it upon themselves to find ways to bypass them, the costs are either shifted back to the honest consumers, or the business cannot sustain itself and dissolves into nothing.
You should either follow their procedure, or stop enabling them. By continuing to use the MPC you are supporting that which does not support you. Find another way, invent another way. If you want to keep using the modern MPC models for time to come, you'll need more parts in the future anyways. This is not a one-time thing. Even if they knew they were selling defective parts, the right response is not to try and strike back, but ignore and walk away.
The biggest thing you can do to hurt Akai is stop using their product. Tell people why, suffocate them by strangling the income line. The company that owns Akai now are not deserving of the respected legacy name of "Akai MPC". They are riding on past innovations, conning people by packaging poor quality machines under that once respected name. People buy because it's Akai MPC, not because the hardware and software is good quality.
Channel your hate into something that makes a difference, not just for you, but everyone. Even if you stole 5 new 2500s from Akai directly, it only hurts other consumers. Akai keeps going, shifting their losses onto us. You're the one who is selfishly helped. Akai does nothing different to stop this practice, or pay retribution to all the others out there like you. They can't all steal a MPC, find a floor model to swap parts. You need to think about them too.
Akai doesn't do things right. There's no disputing that. They don't even appear to exist anymore. When I emailed them, I got a response from [email protected], "Akai Professional | Alesis | Numark | Ion Audio". What is that? It's a bunch of brand names with no solid coherent company behind them. Akai doesn't exist, it's just a shell name that is used by a mess of a corporation that is in control of the assets previously owned by Akai.
To determine what is right and wrong, you need to step through every cause and effect that occurs due to your action, including those that branch off from them. If you weigh what you're proposing carefully, you can see why it is wrong, where the costs go, why it makes things worse in the longrun in order to elevate your temporary gain. That's why it is wrong, not because Akai can't build anything quality, and is unable to maintain products or help customers.
Corporations have a specific procedure in place for a reason. It isn't necessarily what's best or easiest for you the customer, it's what makes it possible to organize large amounts of people and resources into something that works. If everyone disagrees with those procedures and takes it upon themselves to find ways to bypass them, the costs are either shifted back to the honest consumers, or the business cannot sustain itself and dissolves into nothing.
You should either follow their procedure, or stop enabling them. By continuing to use the MPC you are supporting that which does not support you. Find another way, invent another way. If you want to keep using the modern MPC models for time to come, you'll need more parts in the future anyways. This is not a one-time thing. Even if they knew they were selling defective parts, the right response is not to try and strike back, but ignore and walk away.
The biggest thing you can do to hurt Akai is stop using their product. Tell people why, suffocate them by strangling the income line. The company that owns Akai now are not deserving of the respected legacy name of "Akai MPC". They are riding on past innovations, conning people by packaging poor quality machines under that once respected name. People buy because it's Akai MPC, not because the hardware and software is good quality.
Channel your hate into something that makes a difference, not just for you, but everyone. Even if you stole 5 new 2500s from Akai directly, it only hurts other consumers. Akai keeps going, shifting their losses onto us. You're the one who is selfishly helped. Akai does nothing different to stop this practice, or pay retribution to all the others out there like you. They can't all steal a MPC, find a floor model to swap parts. You need to think about them too.
