My day gig is working on a software-as-a-service product, but that’s more business/business.
I can also understand why some small devs might appreciate more consistency in being able to pay for health insurance and rent with monthly service fees.
I will never understand people who stan for the business model as self-validating, it’s not some sort of virtuous practice. Just a model and there’s a little fuzziness on whether it’s good for you or “worth” the cost of embracing some company’s ecosystem.
I’ll sidestep the entire argument and laud that I’m seeing some nice “rent to own” scenarios from companies where you pay some monthly fee in which you can use the software until you reach the full cost. I’ve seen them mostly with smaller devs that don’t do as many “sales” but have more loyal word of mouth.
Great episode to start the new year! He made up for the rather limited sound by really trying to get the most out of it, and the meme selection had me reconsidering my “no pause” policy. The sentence in the opening segment that ends “I might have a point here” is impressive.
Teenage engineering just recently issued a copyright strike against Florian for his BadGear roast of a Teenage Engineering product. Because they’re refusing to honor the “transfer of control” of a purchase (of a sample-playing instrument), claiming that the purchaser stole their copyrighted sounds
That commenter was jumping to conclusions and everyone is climbing aboard the bandwagon; Florian hasn’t given any additional details on the strike. No other 1320 videos have been removed for playing the samples afaik. Other commenters have speculated it was instead related to using clips from their promo video, which seems more plausible.
Great way to alienate a user base. They have WAY overpriced gear and they wanna strike at Florian? C’mon man that’s FREE advertising. From the company that made a "medieval " product? They have no sense of humor? SMH
i imagine it was removed because it was just their audio from the announcement clip over a clip from Midsommer? or something like that. (edit: remembering now that it was the announcement video from TE spliced with scenes from Midsommer) pretty cut and dry copywrite claim, im sure pillz knew that was a possibility when he went for the goof. it wasnt a full episode, it was a parody of the announcement video
quality has gone down on Teenage Engineering and prices skyrocketed. Don’t get me wrong the OP-1, OB-4 and TX-6 have been great tools albeit expensive. But the 2k folding desk and high price of the new OP-XY are tough for non wealthy folks.
I don’t know about international copyright law but in the United States parody is protected as free speech under the first amendment of the constitution as a form of expression.
Whatever the actual criteria cited for the takedown, the act of initiating a takedown in regard to something which wasn’t even positioned as derogatory or inflammatory speaks to the nature of the litigation.
I mean draw your own conclusions about whether this is fair and valid on either side of the table, but I think any hope that TE had of a continued perception that they’re just goofy guys with a cool style having fun with wacky releases has gone out the window because this makes it look like they take themselves and these products waaayy too seriously for the nature of their tables and wooden dolls.
Please recognize that this is all purely opinion™ and I will hope to not receive a takedown notice from any major synth companies regarding them.
I always got the impression that they take themselves way too seriously.
Remember when Florian did that Superbooth video a couple of years ago and he chatted to/took the piss out of TE? They didn’t look particularly amused back then and people that pretentious tend to have pretty thin skin anyway. Sooner or later they were gonna pull something like this, he’s been winding them up for years.
Is it even possible for a company to retain commercial license or ownership of samples that are sold along a device? I think that would have trouble getting past consumer protection in a lot of EU countries.
It’s never been a question for me, based on that and other evidence (in fact, I would not be surprised to know that this is collateral damage dating back to the superbooth incident) however depending on how this plays out, their die-hard core support of cheerleaders may have a much less solid defense to stand behind.
Someone of the opposite belief can come in here and say he shouldn’t have done it or got what he deserved, and in truth, we don’t know the finer details, however I think everyone here can agree that whatever product is shown on bad gear, someone is buying it because they saw it on bad gear so to get all litigious over a goofy demo of your product because you take yourself too seriously is probably not a good look for some guys who want to sell medieval themed samplers and $2000 picnic tables and shit.
