Please don’t lock me up for saying this, but I’ve been using a pirate version of Sony Vegas Pro for quite a few years now.  From time to time I like to edit movies and the software is absolutely perfect, but at hundreds of pounds is too expensive for me to purchase.

Then I came across Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD, a scaled down version of Pro which at £60 is aimed at normal people like me.  I thought about it for a while and finally decided that after years of enjoying free video editing I will buy myself a legit copy.  I had recently reformatted my hard drive anyway and decided I would try and be as legit as possible with future software needs.

Due to me growing up in the internet generation of ‘I want it now’ I went on Sony’s website to download it (I think Amazon were offering the boxed copy slightly cheaper, but I couldn’t wait that long).  I was given the basic price of £60, and they offered me a backup disk for £5.  I pondered this as £5 is a bit steep for a CD, but then again if I don’t get this then sod’s law will find me and make me regret it, so I decided to add it to the list.

I then go to the next page and find they want to charge me £20 for delivery of the CD!  No thankyou.  I untick the CD and have a sudden urge to go on Piratebay and just get it for free.  But I am proud to say I used my willpower and carried on with the tendering process.

So here I am preparing to type in my credit card details, and then I see they want to charge me another £20 in VAT!  Or some tax thing anyhow. I mean, surely that should be included in the original price?  Why are Sony bombarding me with all these hidden charges when I can just go to Piratebay and get the same software for free?

Anyway, my willpower was broken and I decided the Piratebay was the only way.

This of course wasn’t my only bad experience with Sony.  I was one of the unfortunate few to buy a PSP-GO; a neglected console which Sony made various false promises over.  But that’s for another post 🙂