Aoki didn’t have to respond to the allegations, but in this case he has decided to come clean and admit to using pirated software. It’s funny that the majority of people complaining that Aoki was using a cracked version of production plugin Sylenth 1 have probably pirated a song of his in the past. The discovery was posted on Reddit and subsequently went viral throughout the blog and social media worlds.
The laptop shown in the “A Light That Never Comes” video is actually his road laptop that wasn’t properly setup. Aoki’s road team didn’t ask Jacob for the authorization code for Sylenth 1 and just used a cracked version instead.
Here’s Aoki’s response from his website.
Aoki also uploaded a screenshot from Paypal, that confirms his assistant purchased the plugin legally in 2009.
If anything Sylenth / Lennar Digital should be thanking Aoki and that Redditor by sending them as many free authorization codes as he wants. They would never have gotten this much publicity otherwise. Maybe someone from the company first posted the news.
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