Quote Originally Posted by tocsin
The rest of you, however, are pretty much hypocrites if you'll scold others who, when it comes to the royalty payments one would earn from sales, have stolen les money with their entire digital music collection than a number of producers have stolen by just downloading one effects plugin pack.
you make a good point, but there are two issues here, that i see a big ethical line between. the first is grabbing something for personal consumption (e.g. a dj set off soulseek), the other is grabbing something to profit off of (e.g. an mp3 used in a dj set). i can't imagine too many people on here being upset about the former, but the latter is a different story...and it's not like sampling, unless you are sampling a large chunk of a tune and not changing it...but this is techno we're talking about, not house... as for using cracked software...that's another story..i'd also be curious to see how people view that...

the bottom line, though, is that techno, like everything else in life, is ruled by the cruel math of economics. when you rip mp3s and use them in paid dj sets, you are ripping off the producers, who should be compensated for their work, and unlike 50 cent or metallica or another RIAA pet, techno producers aren't really asking for much.