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The most amusing situation to me was when Carnage made a god-awful tutorial for Razer Music, in which he used a pirated version of Sylenth. Once he got called out by the public, he said[1] in a tweet:

> “lmaooo wtf why does it matter?”

LennarDigital (the company behind Sylenth) decided to reply to his tweet and said that they "are happy to make it a matter".

He later on went and accused Razer that it was their laptop in the video, which resulted in them canceling the contract with him and removing that god-awful tutorial from their website. I laughed so hard as the accusations went on and on.

[1] http://www.youredm.com/2015/10/22/sylenth-threatens-to-sue-c...

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It's not actually true that you can "lose the copyrights to your music" if you use pirated software to produce it, is it? That doesn't sound at all true.

No, someone is probably confusing this with something that would be related to derivative works.

Unless perhaps the software ships with audio samples that are granted royalty-free usage to anyone who has a legit license to the software package? Extremely unlikely, just trying to imagine why someone would think this.

No, that is trademark, and that is only when trademarks are in open consideration for having become "part of the common culture".

That's got nothing to do with trademark one way or the other. The question is whether you can maintain a proprietary interest in something created with tools appropriated form others.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the answer is "of course you can".

[Moved my comment to the top level -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11212642 ]

I did not know about this until now (and I, sorta, follow EDM). What a dumbass, that is hilarious

Then I highly suggest you to watch the tutorial (I found the re-uploaded version on YouTube[0]). It's ridiculous. Here's my favorite quote:

> I don't know what it does, it just makes everything super louder. [...] It just sounds very very way more stronger.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IPxxeb-4gk

I love the subtitles:

"I end up usually taking 'out' so it just makes it shorter and tighter so... normal would be... you know, you can kinda hear the difference a little, shorter and sharper."

Subtitle: "Increase 'out' parameter to isolate the attack transient"

Yep, exactly what he said.

Higher-quality version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o

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