V/M wrote:Icaro wrote:Also, I downloaded a sample pack a couple weeks ago, because I was thinking I might be interested in buying it. I'm really glad I did, because it was total crap. The folders were called things like 'hats', and in the folder about 100 hi-hats labelled only 'Hat1' 'Hat2' 'HAT3', etc. no indication as to if the hat was open or closed, synthetic or recorded. It was the same with all the other folders in the pack as well. This pack is on one of the better known digital download sample sites.
you may disagree with the way they run their business, but I don't think that gives you the right to open and examine the merchandise without their permission. I feel you should respect their wishes and move on, it's their loss for handling their business in a way that doesn't work with your personal philosophy. also, their lack of attention to detail, such as a meaningful naming convention, doesn't justify your actions.
I don't think it has anything to do with my agreeing or disagreeing with their business model, in fact far from it. I don't have those samples sitting on my hard drive, I deleted them two minutes later. Samples are bought because you intend to use them on releases, or work with them in your music creation. I did neither. I just took a look at what was offered, before deciding not to pay a rather high fee for a set I would have felt ripped off on after buying. People who download commercial sample sets without paying for them, and then use them in commercial releases, really suck. The only commercial sample sets I have sitting on my hard drive, were sets I bought personally, and one set a friend gave me (not through the net) as a gift. You try on shoes before you buy them, otherwise you wouldn't know if they fit or not. If they had a free demo set of a few samples from the set for sale, that would have been sufficient.