It's a silent business model that many in the industry are happy with, because they're good at their job. If your track gets signed, better get a licence for any samples you used from Splice or elsewhere. Other big names have admitted using cracked/pirated software before they were big. She admitted it in an interview and there was no backlash from Avid or the music press. Lorde's first hit album was made on a PC version of cracked Pro Tools and cracked plugins. But if they make it, most will buy the software and sample licences. Put it this way, the masses of bedroom producers pirating DAWs and plugs can't afford the software anyway. They get raided occasionally (Sometimes due to being snitched on when a mix or master session goes bad).

Perhaps the reason we don't hear about hundreds of court cases against individuals pirating plugs (Barely any uploaders either) is because companies won't get anything from them, as these bedroom producers have not money!Ī real target is the studios and engineers offering services with a shitload of cracked plugs. I read somewhere a while back that people that use cracked plugins spend more on plugins than people that don't use cracked plugins.

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