sadly, I know - I'm a BMI songwriter and have never seen a dime --- honestly, I'd rather deal with the Mafia than either the music industry or the software giants... At least I'd stand a better chance of a fair deal...
Perhaps if software moved to a model where the programmers got royalties, copyright would concern me. The music industry disburses royalties to its performers...
Fact is, I'm not going to pay the exhorbitant software costs to the big companies.
Big software companies don't lose all that much to individual piracy -- they have multi-million dollar contracts with big companies to give them crap software... I can't sympathise with Bill Gates, Adobe, Macromedia (although I daily use products from each of them) I have figured the cost of the AVERAGE software to be a complete webmaster using a windows box.
WIN XP
Office XP
Dreamweaver MX
Flash MX
Adobe Font Folio 9
Adobe Type Manager
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
These are the basics, but I'm already in the hole several thousand dollars
bah!
with the advent of broadband and cd burners, it's put software piracy in the hands of everyman instead of just the ubergeek...
When the software houses implement a royalties system of $10 or $20 to be distributed to the programmers for every license, I'll consider paying for my win software... I myself am both artist and programmer... it's not the little guy getting screwed...
If you're bored, please visit my site, Web Kiss 101, personals for geeks!
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sadly, I know - I'm a BMI songwriter and have never seen a dime --- honestly, I'd rather deal with the Mafia than either the music industry or the software giants... At least I'd stand a better chance of a fair deal...
Perhaps if software moved to a model where the programmers got royalties, copyright would concern me. The music industry disburses royalties to its performers... Fact is, I'm not going to pay the exhorbitant software costs to the big companies. Big software companies don't lose all that much to individual piracy -- they have multi-million dollar contracts with big companies to give them crap software... I can't sympathise with Bill Gates, Adobe, Macromedia (although I daily use products from each of them) I have figured the cost of the AVERAGE software to be a complete webmaster using a windows box. WIN XP Office XP Dreamweaver MX Flash MX Adobe Font Folio 9 Adobe Type Manager Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator These are the basics, but I'm already in the hole several thousand dollars bah! with the advent of broadband and cd burners, it's put software piracy in the hands of everyman instead of just the ubergeek... When the software houses implement a royalties system of $10 or $20 to be distributed to the programmers for every license, I'll consider paying for my win software... I myself am both artist and programmer... it's not the little guy getting screwed... If you're bored, please visit my site, Web Kiss 101, personals for geeks!