Might be bollocks, but...

Lee_B

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.. I just read this on another forum. Nothing for any of you guys to worry about, I'm sure :):

If you work in a recording studio you may want to check you've got a license for all your software.

Especially anything from Israeli company Wave, who make very good plug ins. Of course, there's loads of moody copies of their plug ins about, which is a bad thing, but rather than ringing studios up saying they're going to come and check the licenses as most people do, they're sending out an undercover agent.

It's usually, though not always, a woman and she asks to see what plug ins the studio has, and in true Mossad stylee she has a secret camera on her filming it all. One week later (just like in the Ring) the studio gets a letter asking not just for the money for the license but also for compensation or they'll take it to court. A number of smaller studios have had no option but to declare themselves bankrupt. There's been small mention of this in music week type rags, but they're playing it down as waves are a big advertiser.
 
this is absolutely true. i have a friend who is a legit studio owner who is in a lawsuit with waves for false accusations of hacked plugs. its baaaaaad newwwwssss. i understand what waves is tryig to accomplish but they are looking in the wrong areas if you ask me.
 
Wow, couldn´t imagine that they really do this spy-stuff you know. Learned again!
but they are looking in the wrong areas if you ask me.

If they´d focus on all those "project studios" around they´d be much more succesfull I guess.
When you look around myspace and stuff there are so many people listing waves diamon-bulde
and others in their "equipment list" ... I won´t bet that everyone of them paid for it ;)
 
Hahaha.. this is great stuff!

In all reality though, i dont know what studios are doing with hacked software though.. if i'd build a studio or work in one, i'd want original stuff only, none of teh piratez haxorz... why take the risk?
 
i'd want original stuff only, none of teh piratez haxorz

Esp. important concerning the DAW... I guess one´s customers would be pissed if

a) they see your H2O-Cubase-thingy and ask themselves what you might have meant
as you told them "I have to take this charge, since it´s 1. my effort and 2. it´s expensive to
buy all this studio-stuff"
b) your H2O-stuff is crushing every 20 takes since it´s crack doesn´t work stable...
c) ... and more

Seb
 
My sisters roommate is a lecturer at Westminster University in London and apparently some students at westminster studying commercial music have been found using hacked software and ae in the process of being sued.
 
Yeah, its all true. An engineer I know recently got a letter from Waves suing him for using cracked Waves stuff. Apparently a guy came to his studio to check it out for a possible booking. He asked to see what plugins he was using and then left saying he would be in touch. It turns out this guy was working for Waves and had also secretly video'd the meeting!
 
Well, offcourse it's something good. But probally taken a bit to far by Waves.
I don't even have a professional studio and I am allready trying to get as much licenses on stuff as I can get with the money I have.
I would never start or build out to a big studio if I don't have licenses for my stuff!