Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: The Propsguild Site will close, to keep contributor members work safe.

Virus opened this issue on Apr 27, 2000 ยท 52 posts


Stormrage posted Thu, 27 April 2000 at 3:40 PM

As a sometimes contributer to the Propsguild I support Virus' decision. Despite the fact that I offer my props, and other things for free that does not give anyone the right to sell my stuff. i state that in the readme. This man (boy whatever you pick a name) has ignored our requests to remove items from his site and still continues to sell everything. While it may seem stupid, or over dramatic remember the Propsguild is protecting not one not two but many artists copyrights. Therefore in my opinion it is the right action since this person decides to steal from us. How would your mebers feel if Metacreations(or whoever owns poser now) turned around and said that they were withdrawing support and removed all the poser related content from their site, stopped selling it, abandoned the fabled poser 5 etc, just because they caught someone using a pirated copy of poser 4. Would that still be classed as 'protecting copyrights' or would it seem a little more like a big company being melodramatic. You are talking about 1 companies work not over a dozen peoples work. Companies and individuals should not be compared because it's about the same as comparing apples and oranges. They just aren't the same or have the same circumstances. A big company will go after people with lawyers. I certainly don't have a lot of money to go after people (though I will when my rights have been violated) Besides that the final decision is up to Virus since he runs and maintains the site. Stormrage