
Steve Henningsgard
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Do you pirate software? Fucking read this.
I'll be the first to admit I used to be one of the worst pirates out there, and not in a fun, scurrrrvy rum-drinking wench-screwing way. I won't go into details, but just trust me on this one. Speaking as someone with a vast amount of experience on the subject, and on someone who is still working to repair the damage done to myself, rest assured I know what I'm talking about and can provide a unique insight into the matter...
I believe the reason anybody pirates is because, with the advent of the internet, fast-food, home entertainment and on-demand TV, we are being brought up in an "instant-gratification" environment. People/companies are working hard to make you work less and less for the things you want. We're all striving to create zero-effort-necessary lives for ourselves. With every new generation, we're taught less and less the value & rewards of a hard day's work. (I know it has taken me years to fully understand & appreciate the feeling I get when I work really fucking hard at something and it pays off.)
So what does this have to do with piracy? Software is the ultimate example of 99% of your money going towards the work that went into creating the product, vs. the product itself. It cost at *least* tens of thousands of dollars (more likely millions), and many thousands (or millions) of man-hours to create the program, yet on the face, you've probably got $20 of manufacturing costs & raw material in you hands (sound familiar? music CD's.). As a person who places little to no value on hard work (either monetary or respect-wise), one might think $500 is a complete rip-off for a single CD & a manual that probably cost $20 to print. The ironic part comes when a person who stole an inexpensively-priced $500 piece of software, goes & complains when nobody will buy their CD that they worked so hard on! It's the same thing people. We're in a society who places little-to-no value on hard work. People complain about spending fuckin' $10 on a CD. Or $10 for a movie ticket.
The bottom line is these people have a passion & talent for creating easy to use, high-quality software, and they choose to use this talent to allow people without $1,000,000's to spend on the analog gear it would take to even try to approach the quality/ease-of-use of their software, to go home & make records. And you complain about $500? Shit, that's for the Producer edition! You complain about $200 for a piece of software that gives you unlimited potential and insane quality to record whatever the fuck you want, whenever the fuck you want, for as long as you fucking want? Jesus christ...
I'll be the first to admit I used to be one of the worst pirates out there, and not in a fun, scurrrrvy rum-drinking wench-screwing way. I won't go into details, but just trust me on this one. Speaking as someone with a vast amount of experience on the subject, and on someone who is still working to repair the damage done to myself, rest assured I know what I'm talking about and can provide a unique insight into the matter...
I believe the reason anybody pirates is because, with the advent of the internet, fast-food, home entertainment and on-demand TV, we are being brought up in an "instant-gratification" environment. People/companies are working hard to make you work less and less for the things you want. We're all striving to create zero-effort-necessary lives for ourselves. With every new generation, we're taught less and less the value & rewards of a hard day's work. (I know it has taken me years to fully understand & appreciate the feeling I get when I work really fucking hard at something and it pays off.)
So what does this have to do with piracy? Software is the ultimate example of 99% of your money going towards the work that went into creating the product, vs. the product itself. It cost at *least* tens of thousands of dollars (more likely millions), and many thousands (or millions) of man-hours to create the program, yet on the face, you've probably got $20 of manufacturing costs & raw material in you hands (sound familiar? music CD's.). As a person who places little to no value on hard work (either monetary or respect-wise), one might think $500 is a complete rip-off for a single CD & a manual that probably cost $20 to print. The ironic part comes when a person who stole an inexpensively-priced $500 piece of software, goes & complains when nobody will buy their CD that they worked so hard on! It's the same thing people. We're in a society who places little-to-no value on hard work. People complain about spending fuckin' $10 on a CD. Or $10 for a movie ticket.
The bottom line is these people have a passion & talent for creating easy to use, high-quality software, and they choose to use this talent to allow people without $1,000,000's to spend on the analog gear it would take to even try to approach the quality/ease-of-use of their software, to go home & make records. And you complain about $500? Shit, that's for the Producer edition! You complain about $200 for a piece of software that gives you unlimited potential and insane quality to record whatever the fuck you want, whenever the fuck you want, for as long as you fucking want? Jesus christ...
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