Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: DAZ Rep Hints at Gestapo Tactics - Deflects Questioning

Photopium opened this issue on Feb 18, 2003 ยท 39 posts


Photopium posted Tue, 18 February 2003 at 4:31 PM

First, I agree with much of what you said about characters that are being made, but that's a whole nother story. First, you are making a mistake. You are allowed to make Characters and sell them using DAZ morphs. To do so, they ask you to use a pose file, so that all you're selling are settings, rather than geometry. They do this because they don't want anyone to benefit from their morphs unless they've paid for them. It's very understandable. Settings are useless without the morph pak. If a person makes a Dazzy character out of their morphs and distributes it as a Morph target, then joe blow who only got V3 without the morphs now benefits (however small) from the Morph target pack without paying for them. I offer a solution for those who feel they need to distribute as Morph target and DAZ, who wants to sell morph paks. All it would take is for a person distributing a morph target to encode it with Mover or other such program against the seed file of the Morph Pak installer. This insures they have the morph pack in question in order to benefit from the character. It's win-win. Why would my suggestion be totally ignored? A lot of people and Anton seem to agree that "Because DAZ says so" is a good answer. It's not. Anton ASKED me to be constructive, and I was. He solicited suggestions, which means they are at least pretending to be open to new ideas which protect them and help the community. Though I agree with what you're saying about the trend in characters for sale, it doesn't answer the question: How will they know when there's been a violation, and how will we know if their allegation is true? What is the method they are going to use to determine this? At the moment, all we got is "They say so" and that is unacceptable IMO. I really want people to understand what is at stake here, and I want to know what is wrong with my suggestion and why Anton can't even bring himself to consider it as viable? They are fair questions and don't deserve slagging off with responses like "Don't stir the pot" and "You're annoying" Anton repeatedly sidesteps every single question and suggestion. -WTB