(04-12-2025, 08:23 PM)MagicalAlchemist Wrote: [ -> ] (04-12-2025, 07:06 PM)Shannon Wrote: [ -> ]In what sense?
In my understanding from the quote I sent, if a person or a group of people does not pay a fair price, it is now considered piracy (e.g., group buying, exchanging your audio for personal gain, or purchasing your paid program on the black market).
Does this mean that the primary functionality of your paid 6G subs is degraded, reduced, limited, crippled, or removed, as stated on the OSC sales page?
Even if the individual is unaware that your 6G subs includes an anti-piracy script?
The OSC product description page states that there is no anti-piracy scripting in OSC. That is to make sure that anyone can use it without triggering the APS.
The anti-piracy measures my approach takes are triggered by piracy, which is an unequal exchange of value. The value per user that I ask for a copy is what the price is to purchase; and to use a program temporarily it is to subscribe. Outside of fair use, gaining value from or having a copy of that program is piracy if the price has not been paid.
Fair use would be, I buy a copy for myself, and my wife wants to get benefit, so she sticks around while I listen to my loops. Piracy would be, one or both of us as a copy and or uses a copy, without having paid for it. The exception there is, one of us can have and use it without having paid for it, if someone who has paid for it and rightfully owns it gives that ownership over to one of us and then deletes all of their copies.
To have a copy without having paid for it otherwise is piracy. Group buys are piracy because one price is paid, but more than one person thereafter has and or uses and benefits from it.
One copy is paid for, one person owns that copy, and only they have the right thereafter to have, make backups of, and use that copy. So if I buy a copy, and I for some reason have to use it at 10 am, and my wife happens to be out working, and then she comes home and uses my copy, she is committing piracy because that's not fair use, and I am committing piracy by allowing her to do this. She does not own that copy, and has no right to use it when she sees fit. She can only legally benefit from it while I am using my copy.
Giving her a copy would be piracy. Her having and accepting that copy, even if she doesn't use it, is piracy. To prevent that, I would either buy her a gift certificate, give it to her and let her get herself a copy with it, or she could buy herself a copy.
Sharing, selling, renting, distributing, and enabling others to do any of these things by your actions or lack of actions, is also piracy. So uploading a copy to a server where you know others will have access to it and download it will be piracy. You must do your due diligence to safeguard your legal copy against piracy by others, including them copying it without your knowledge. It's pretty easy to lock your phone these days, and store files in ways that are secure enough to prevent that.
When you or someone else benefits from my work, and I do not get reimbursed fully for what I have set the price to be, then there is an imbalance of value exchange, and piracy takes place. The only exceptions are:
A) Fair use. You use your program and you allow others to be exposed at the same time you are using your copy for yourself.
B) Transfer of ownership. If I am not wanting my copy of Program X anymore, I can
give it to someone else, and then delete all of my copies and backups of it, relinquish ownership and they can take ownership and use it as their own properly. You cannot trade for it, sell it or otherwise gain from transferring ownership of that copy to anyone else.
