mr_debauch wrote:yeah well it comes off like you're mad at not being able to flip your legit chips for 500 bucks as quickly... and not because all of a sudden, you discovered piracy and are pissed that it exists.
I am not flipping anything, not selling anything, it is absolutely nothing to do with anything I have losing value.
I don't sell anything off, that is why I have so much gear.
DIK Supreme wrote:Most cats are buying them to enhance beat making, while some of these guys seem to jus collect mpcs to collect dust
Yes my gear collects dust, but really, why does that bother anyone else?
I work in a studio and live sound venue as a technical officer, looking after this sort of gear all day long, it really doesn't bother me if I don't use it as much as I would like when I get home, why does it bother you?
Does that somehow make my anti-piracy opinion any less valid?
I am wondering why you try to use that to get some sort of anger response from me, or others, do you expect that it will, does it make you feel better about yourself, does it make you feel superior?
mr_debauch wrote:the price gouging opportunists taking advantage of the situation are only going to have issues selling their OG eproms to people who need it to use it...
There really isn't any need, people want it, they don't need it.
The MPC3000 works fine, and became the classic it is, with 3.11.
Just saying, you're sort of letting it bother you a bit aren't you? You still got your eproms.
Piracy of any intellectual property disgusts me, no matter what the format, music, film, software, OS versions, whatever.
It is even worse, and the need for copyright protection more obvious, in situations like this, with a very limited market for a product, and a one man company producing the product, and there is still no respect for the rights of the copyright holder.
It just highlights how full of cr*p the piracy supporters usual argument of giving it to the man, and somehow trying to use the justification that they are helping out the artist/content creator by giving it to the record/movie/software corporations.
This is a one man show, making a product for a very limited market, and people still can't help themselves, and have to resort to piracy for profit, due to greed.