phibes wrote:Geeze, is FSB the new DIYSB?
It's certainly starting to look that way!
phibes wrote:Is it going to contain copyrighted material? Yes.
Probably not. The only part of a guitar effect box that can be "copyrighted" is the paint job and the Logo on the outside - if you imitate that, you can be convicted of "passing off" which is simply claiming that your nasty copy of a product
is actually the real product.
All the circuitry is based on "Prior Art" and can't be patented or copyrighted. If I'd come up with the idea of hacking the tops and bottoms off a guitar signal with semiconductor diodes back in the 60s, I'd be insanely rich, but every pedal that uses diodes in that way (whether "to ground" or in the feedback loop of an amplification stage) is just the same old, same old...... JATS, JAFF, JABM etc etc.....
Our pal Ken Abate didn't actually do anything
illegal - in fact he should be admired for duping the "Golden Eared" morons at TGP!!! I don't condone what he did - buying a $20 Chinese piece of crap, repainting it and soldering a resistor or two into it so the controls behaved differently isn't the "American Manufacture" he claimed - but it gave us all a good laugh and showed what crap the majority of the Boutique Industry actually is.
phibes wrote: Is it gonna contain outdated versions of files? Yes, but the end user should realize that. Are shitheads going to use files in the wrong way? Yes, it's the world wide web, that reaches to all interests. Are people going to follow laws? No, they never have.
The sooner people like "Analoguru" realise that they actually have
No Rights On the 'Net
Whatsoever, the sooner they'll stop whining and let the grown-ups carry on sharing information and ideas for the benefit of all of us.
Phibes - If you have a technical question I can help you with, isn't it better for the whole community if you ask that question publicly and I answer in the same way? We might help someone else with the same problem. We might even inspire some Boutique Boob to up his game... Who knows? But as long as we're precious about our knowledge, we're doing nobody any good.
I got upset when a couple of people published work that had been mine. I subsequently realised how silly my indignation was. Anybody with any basic technical knowledge could take apart one of my boxes, and work out how it does its magic. It's a bit galling when they claim that the original circuit was theirs, but there are assholes everywhere, and we all just have to learn to live with them. I still think it's funny that the same mistakes I included in products in the 80s are turning up in current products and designs!
Nil illegitimi carborundum!