Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't this be considered entrapment, or coercion or something?Coersion or entrapment imply that the police convinced an otherwise unwilling person to commit a crime. If the studio was all legit and the Waves guy came in and put on the hard sell for a cracked version and then busted them.it MIGHT be considered entrapment.but still probably not. Prostitutes and drug dealers are busted in such sting operations all the time.

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All they did here was ask to see the software the studios ALREADY stole. Using cracked software when you're a 16 year old kid in your bedroom, just wanting to learn and make music is one thing, but doing so in a commercial or educational facility is a whole other ballgame. They deserve whatever legal consequences they get.regardless of how you feel about Waves' as a company. A studio I work with got nailed by Waves in a sting like this. It's awful - a freelance engineer installed the Waves cracks years ago, and the owners/operators had no idea. It's an ugly situation, and the damages that Waves is seeking could break this place. They're not even a real music recording studio - it's a web and Flash design company, with a tiny little Pro Tools room for VO and narration recording.

The Waves 'agent' posed as an engineer looking for a small, affordable room in which to do mixing. They showed him their little room, he asks what plugs they have running, they shrug and say 'I don't know, take a look.' There's got to be a better way to reduce piracy. What I don't understand is why studios would let random freelance engineers install ANY software on their computers. That's just dumb. I mean, how hard is it to set up administrative passwords?

If I were a studio owner, those computers would be locked down and no software of any kind would be installed by anyone without permission from me. Leaving those computers open is just asking for viruses (if it's a PC), cracked software, and other random crap to be all over them.Exactly! I administer six Pro Tools workstations at the college where I work. You can't imagine the crap these kids try to install - cracked plugins, file sharing programs, etc.

If the computer is administered properly, there is absolutely no need for the end user to have administrative access. That's just asking for trouble.

I know they have every right to be pissed but thier WUP user plan is hard to swallow. Unreasonable upgrade plugin prices leads to more people using cracked plugs. I had purchased a Waves Ren bundle for $300 which I dug at the time. I got WUPED for it was going to cost me over $600 to upgrade a $300 bundle because they didn't make that bundle anymore which means I had to buy a bigger bundle that contained the ren plugs. I refuse to lease plugins. If I ever got offered waves cracked plugins I wouldn't even take them after that mess they put me through. I like supporting reasonable companies.

Regards entrapment, there's no such thing in the UK, in fact, our authorities regularly use such methods. It would appear Waves (or their agents) are taking a different stance in different territories, in the UK they seem to be accusing outright, not so in the US. As to freelancers installing software - you should cover yourself with your T&Cs or, more sensibly, restore your computers back to what they were before the session My advice to anyone that gets one of these letters is to ignore it, I really cannot see how they can hope to win a court case in the UK given some of the reported methods. As a person who is forced to buy plugins or go without (guilty conscience) I have no compassion for those who steal software. It's time that we view music and software as the property that it is.

I don't care if you're a major studio or a college kid. If I told you that my 57 Les Paul was stolen from my studio last year and showed up at The Hit Factory or some 18 year old kid's mom's house, would you see their side at all? Would it make a difference which one stole it? No difference.

In theory anyway. Stealing software doesn't involve breaking and entering. Obviously, studios are going to claim that they didn't install it. I am curious if they can get out of responsibility for it though. If an intern brought my stolen Les Paul in to that studio and left it there, is the studio liable for the theft? Australian Standard As2870 Pdf To Jpg. Buy your software and clean out the crap that your clients install on it.

Using Mac OS X, it is very easy to create a new user for the new client and then delete that user when they leave. Makes you wonder why WAVES doesnt get the ORIGINAL CRACKER CODEBREAKER in this case????

Sounds just like law, pop the end user and leave the big guy alone I still have my WAVES GOLD but I wont be wupping anymore. I dont like the policy. Ill be looking elsewhere for my plugins. Sounds to me more like their extortion policy is loosing them customers and the cash flow is drying upBecause there is still lots of debate over whether cracking is illegal or not. If crackers aren't selling the cracked software, or the means to crack, there's often a good case for 'grey area'. There is legislation, but it's localized and still without much precedence. The crime is often in the distribution of cracked software, and usually the crackers just 'put it out there' to no-one specific.

It's like a drug dealer just leaving a stash on the sidewalk. Are they peddling? Crackers aren't 'the big guy'. Waves wouldn't get any money out of them for recompense, and there'd just be someone else to take their place. There is no return on going after the cracker other than temporarily slowing lost revenue. It's also arguable how much revenue is lost.

How many people would never buy Waves if they actually had to pay for it, orr only use it because they don't have to pay for it. This same argument can be made for record companies. People download a lot of albums they'd never pay for if they had to. I'm not supporting crackers or people who use cracked software, just musing about the issue at hand. I think its pretty intense that they are setting up these operations, but I also don't think its totally unjustifiable. If you really are running a legitimate business, you shouldn't be using cracked software.

Honestly, there are enough studios around for clients to find a place where they can get a decent recording made, and if you plan on running a business, you should never be shady about anything. I'm in college and from time to time I'll see someone running a cracked version, but thats just a college kid trying to learn whats going on and how to use the software. When there is a piece of gear you really love, eventually you save up and buy it (is that why we are gearslutz? Download Update Windows Xp Sp3 Offline 2013 Oscar on this page. ). If software is really something you are going to use, its just as important as gear and you should feel it necessary to buy it just like you would that vintage synth or pre or whatever. Just because its software doesn't mean that someone didn't develop it.

That being said, I am still not sure how I feel about doing things in a sneaky way like this.regardless of the law, people are being trapped.

Using WAVES plugins in FL Studio The standard procedure to use Waves plugins in FL Studio is as follows: • • In FL Studio, open the plugin selector from the mixer (see image 1 below) • From the plugin selector, choose one of the 'waveshell.' Plugins (see image 2) • The plugin wrapper will open showing a selector control, containing all the plugins that are available for that specific 'waveshell.' Plugin (see image 3) • Select the plugin you want to load from the selector and it will open (see image 4) NOTE: that this procedure only works in FL Studio 9 or later.