This Week in the Mercury
Friday, July 31, 2009
News YACHT & Pirating
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:15 AM
No, not the Somalia kind. Instead this is a great read from Dummy Magazine, where YACHT's Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans talk about the software pirating controversy that popped up last year.
You did an interview earlier this year and talked about the pirated software that you’ve used and well one of the companies, Audio Damage lost their rag. Were you surprised at the reaction?Jona: Honestly I was very surprised, before it blew up, before it was on Pitchfork and everywhere, I had written to them, sent them a really sincere email offering to pay for the 4 plug-ins that I used.
Claire: Didn’t you actually pay for them then?
Jona: No I didn’t, I offered, he refused. He never got back to me he just wrote publicly on his blog and referenced my letter. That was completely ridiculous to me. For one it’s funny how much coverage it got as it started in this weird vacuum of a software plug-in developers blog’s comment section, that’s where it really blew up.
It's a pretty fascinating situation and if there is no new Keyboard Cat to suck away your internet hours today, it's definitely worth reading.
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