russell Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 Never try to sneak anything past Reddit, even if you don’t think you have anything to hide. Steve Aoki may be feeling the pain here very shortly, as cyber-sleuths on Reddit noticed something out of place in the A Light That Never Comes with Linkin Park preview video.Oopsie. Team ArCADE is a well known cracking group. That’s clearly a cracked copy of Lennar Digital‘s popular Sylenth 1 VST, which if you didn’t know, retails for around $215 USD.In and of itself the whole pirated software thing might not be such an issue in the hands of say an amateur producer who has yet to make money with his work, but… We’re talking about an entirely different situation with Aoki, who makes a reported 12 million a year.Supposedly Lennar Digital has already been notified and we’re still waiting for their response. But remember kids, if you like the software you’ve pirated, buy it. Especially when half of the money you spend on cake a year could easily buy most every VST in production. For shame Steve Aoki, for shame. Watch the video below.source: youredm.com Quote
yizzle Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 that's why is has lots of money. cause he doesn't spend any of it Quote
Cupe Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 Everyone dabbles in pirated mp3 and software here and their during their journeyBut legit there's no excuse for a fucking millionare Quote
russell Posted August 23, 2013 Author Posted August 23, 2013 But legit there's no excuse for a fucking millionareexactly. even all my software is straight up bought and paid for. Quote
russell Posted August 23, 2013 Author Posted August 23, 2013 Could possibly even be a fake/shopThought about this. would prefer to think of him as even more of a WHALE than i did before. Quote
Duz Posted August 24, 2013 Posted August 24, 2013 Could possibly even be a fake/shopthat's the official linkin park youtube channel, so not likely to be a shop. Might not be a screen grab of his laptop, but will be interesting to see the outcome of this... Quote
BeatLeSS Posted September 4, 2013 Posted September 4, 2013 Has anyone been following this, do we have some more news? Quote
Tomy Posted September 4, 2013 Posted September 4, 2013 yeah he posted a response on his websitehttp://steveaoki.com/blog/sylenth-response/ Quote
yizzle Posted September 4, 2013 Posted September 4, 2013 ill just save ppl going off ADJF It’s recently come to my attention that some fans on Reddit caught a screenshot of a pirated software plug-in from a recent Youtube clip I did with Linkin Park. To clear the air, I have owned the properly registered plug-in, Sylenth, for over 4 years now on my studio computer. I’ve included both the receipt and a screenshot of the actual plug-in below, purchased by my faithful assistant Jacob Lee. This is the computer I do all of my production on, including “A Light That Never Comes” with Linkin Park.However, the honest truth is that screenshot is in fact of my road laptop (the laptop I DJ with). I go through 5 or 6 of them a year, usually purchasing them while on the road. After my last purchase, I had asked my road team to help me load in my production software and apparently they didn’t ask Jacob for the authorization code for Sylenth and installed a pirated version.So my apologies go out to the good people at Lennar Digital and a big thank you to my fans that caught the mistake which has since been rectified.Sincerely,Steve Aoki Quote
russell Posted September 4, 2013 Author Posted September 4, 2013 He remains a Sir wait? when was he ever? Quote
SweetIshDub Posted September 4, 2013 Posted September 4, 2013 of course it was someone else's fault. of course. Quote
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