Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


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

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


Ratteler posted Sat, 25 January 2003 at 9:07 PM

I think it's impossible to check every free stuff item. Look at the delay's in getting stuff up in the MP and that's stuff R'osity has an internst in getting up there. I do have an idea for a halfway solution though. Make Free Stuff more like the Marketplace. Treat every free stuff item as a zero cost sale. This would let R'osity and the free stuff distributor keep a record of who downloaded what and when. In the even of a Warez problem, a message could be sent to all the downloaders informing them, and it would keep a record of of losses for some one like Anton to use against the Pirate. It would also open up the opertunity to some welcome Free Stuff improvments. Like adding preview renders and a REAL product description. Something more than just a thumbnail. You could still require the user to link to their own server space for both the file, and the previews while only increasing the overhead of server space used at Rosity by a small amount. I personally hate having to download something just to see what it looks like. I would welcome a more verbose product description. It would also make offenders easier to catch. I would also like to see an optional download limit so a user doesn't bang the free stuff providers bandwidth to death.