Originally posted by Diki:
An absurd comparison. And probably the root of much of the confusion on this site.
There is a complete difference between painstakingly recording a concert piano to make a sample set (which has LONG been allowed as legal) and the wholesale THEFT of those recordings to make your OWN sample set. Simply put, it's OK to sample a piano. It is NOT OK to copy someone ELSE'S samples. Not without permission.
It boils down to the WORK (as James likes to call it). Making the samples directly from the piano is a long, hard, complicated and expensive process. Copying the data is NOT. It's as easy as breaking into someone's house and stealing their stuff! Make your OWN sample set of a piano, all is good. Steal MINE, and I'll sick the dogs on ya!
Do the work yourself, or PAY for it. Do neither, and you are stealing. Period.
And there is the hypocrisy and injustice in the reasoning.
It is OK to cause economic damage to one product but not OK to cause damage to another.
Do you really expect any fair-minded person to adopt that view?
You can not say it is OK for the samplers of an acoustic instrument to rob the makers of an acoustic instrument of their hard work, but then turn around and say that those same samplers should be protected from the clones who will rob the samplers of their hard work.
The point is completely inconsistent and does not make any sense.
The persons who sample should do the work them selves and make their own original sounding instrument and stop robbing other people of their hard work.
[This message has been edited by to the genesys (edited 06-15-2010).]
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