Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A question about Warez in FreeStuff... a personal rant.

PheonixRising opened this issue on Jan 24, 2003 ยท 159 posts


pdxjims posted Fri, 24 January 2003 at 11:37 PM

Anton, You're right as rain on this. I avoid anything Lady Luna does, and deleted most of the things I downloaded from her (still looking, lots of stuff to go through). That's the responsible thing we all can do. I think as people find these, they should be posted here so we can avoid them, and if we've got them, delete them. If we have something we really like, then we can go back and BUY THE PRODUCT from the real creator. I don't understand why people do this. They should know they'll be caught and ruin rather than make their reputation. There are ways to distribute things like this so that only if you have the original purchased products will they load. Encoders work very well. Its a little extra effort, but I'd think it'd be a lot better than getting the reputation as a pirate and being (eventually) banned. And you're wrong. She owes you the full price for the product times the number of downloads. If you sold a dress for $10, she should be coughing up $20,000 per dress, times 13... so $260,000. The 'sity should be giving you all the contact information they have for your lawyers. I'd also report her to the software piracy associations. This kind of crap doesn't encourage people to get into making products. Of course it happens, but this is blatent and very disheartening.