Enlightenspeed wrote: ↑24 Apr 2020
MrFigg wrote: ↑24 Apr 2020
Read this and just wondered what you meant “risk everything”. Genuinely curious.
ALL of your passwords (including banks etc.), ALL of your browser history (including the private browsing stuff), ALL of your files (including the ability for the data to be learned, deleted, copied). pretty much everythin you do on your pc, or everything which is linked to it is at risk.
It is exceptionally dangerous to open yourself to this stuff these days; once upon a time the threat was that you had to reboot your PC. Today it is no exaggeration that you could be risking your house.
I think you guys are being a TAD dramatic.
First of all, the newer Windows OSes are much more resilient than in years past. They're also much better about blocking weird software actions.
Second, anyone who downloads cracked software knows (
should know) to do so on a VM/non-critical computer. Install/test/monitor firewall/etc. Make sure things work and it's not calling home to China.
R2R is a legit group of longtime known quality crackers and if they say they did it, then I believe they did it.
Lastly, I don't think any semi/professional musicians who rely on their software to earn an income from it are out there running cracked stuff. You do it initially to get started and hone your skills until you can buy the real stuff.
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I grew up poor. I wanted to make music (<-- I have no idea why that is now a link). I went through literal hell to get my first guitar which was a whopping $100. I built my first computers out of other people's recycle piles. Eventually, I got a fancy "full duplex" sound card out of one of those old discarded machines. I then downloaded Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.0 (<--apparently Reason Talk is using spammy links in comments now. Real nice /s.) from Katzwarez over 56Kbps dialup in probably ~1998 (?). I downloaded everything I could get my hands on and found the stuff I liked and the stuff I didn't like. I had/have a cracked version of Reason 5 and I was SO stoked to get it. But it didn't
Record audio so it was of limited usefulness to me.
Prior to recording on a computer, I was so desperate to record songs/ideas I was working on, I turned a dual tape deck boombox into my recording interface: I took a cassette and a tape head out of an old tape player, cut out the space to install the tape head in it, wired that into a shitty Radio Shack microphone and recorded my first sounds using the tape duplication function of the boombox.
Fast forward to post-College adult life: Now, I'm running paid/legit versions of Reason 10 and Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 among other software. Pirated software is a means to an end. It's not going to lead to a life of crime..although I don't claim to not be a criminal in other respects (COUGH
checkoutmyyoutubechannelCOUGH [link added by myself]).
I have no regrets/shame about pirating software before I could afford to pay for the ones I really liked. Now I own a house and have bank accounts and a variety of guitars and other instruments. You gotta start somewhere.
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EDIT: I don't know what the fuck is going on with the random spam links in the comments. Sometimes when I load the page, they're visible and other times not. I found one mention of this elsewhere on Reasontalk (
this thread) and the mods never even chimed in or announced (as far as I can tell) the introduction of spammy advertisement links in comments but other users confirmed it. That is really, really lame.