This might help if I tell you exactly what to look for. This will help Caleb and you guys. Feel free to post this or use this info in the community if you feel it will help educate people on your site. Problems in Frestuff are usally in four areas: Hair, Morphs, Clothes, Body Textures Props There genrally ways in which innocent mistakes and deliberate acts manifest. These are generalizations and each instance is obviously unique.. --------------------------------------- Hair: Potentially Innocent: A morph is made for a hairstyle but it is provided as an obj. Poof! Instant hairdo without purchase. Check the textures though. Typical Excuse: "I didn't know" Fix: Destribute .hr2 only with morphs already loaded. Make sure no "custom geom" lines are present. This means the geometry has been imbeded. Happens when you export, import and resave. be careful you are not distributing an expansion back or morph add-on pack though. Potentially Deliberate: A hair mesh is subdivided, altered, but obiously is not thiers. Typical Excuse: "It is mine you bastard! How dare you!" or "I got it from a freesite and thought I was allowed to." Never use anything from someone else without knowing what their real name and address is. People lie. --------------------------------------- Morphs: Potentially Innocent: A morph is made for a figure but it is provided as an obj. Poof! Free mesh without purchase. Alot of LW, Maya, and 3dmax people know to come here for free Daz meshes. Typical Excuse: "I didn't know" Fix: Delete everything but the "V" lines in the obj. Or just keep in a stripped cr2. Potentially Deliberate: Someone elses morphs were combined into a hybrid and toted as original. Typical Excuse: "I made this from scartch you bastard! How dare you!" Hard to detect but not impossible. Fix: No fix. bad bad bad. I can provide Mods with a list of some of the telltale morph distortion to look for. Certain morphs always make the same patterns. Also transfering things like V2 morphs onto girls isn't good cause they can be transfered back again. --------------------------------------- Clothes: Potentially Innocent: Wow that shirt looks familiar. Just shorter. Almost no ways this can be accidental. Typical Excuse: "But so and so is doing it" or "I don't remember where I got the mesh" Fix: Tape their fingers together. Doing it for attention. Doesn't care. Potentially Deliberate: Altered clothing mesh not encoded by objaction mover, etc. Typical Excuse: "I made this from scartch you bastard! How dare you!" or "I though we were allowed to change it if we buy it." Fix:Encode it but ask the maker first. Some people depend on their own stuff to make new things. If you make everything out of their meshes, then they have nothing to make. --------------------------------------- Body Textures: Potentially Innocent: Part theirs part yours. Almost no ways this can be accidental Typical Excuse: "I used a freebie texture." Freebie texture was warez, endless vicious circle Fix: Never use anything from anyone you didn't make yourself. Potentially Deliberate: Someone makes a texture using other peoples textures Typical Excuse: "I made this from scartch you bastard! How dare you!" "But I bought it" Fix: No fix. bad bad bad. Make figure textures from scratch or have detailed documentation enclosed with text permission and sources listed including names and contact info. --------------------------------------- Props: Potentially Innocent: Copyright mesh shows up as a prop. Typical Excuse: "But the manual said I could make props from stuff" "I thought it was safe" Fix: Exporting and importing props will change the way the file is saved and embed it into the file. Make them for you only but don't distribute them without the creator's written permission. Or open the ball prop and edit the runtime path to point to the original but don't give out an obj you didn't make. Potentially Deliberate: Copyright mesh shows up as a prop. Typical Excuse: "I made this from scartch you bastard! How dare you!" or "I though we were allowed to change it if we buy it." Fix:Encode it but ask the maker first. Freebie props really should be from scartch. If you are unsure contact the maker.. --------------------------------------- People will almost never admit that they did something deliberately. After education there is almost no situation where the person should ever have an excuse for repeating the same mistake. Good peoplel do bad things all the time. Usually they rationalize it so theymay honestly have convinced themselves theyare right. This means they will usually do it again. Sadly they do so you might want to keep an eye or a record of what happened. Sadly we have alot of people floating around who were notorious copyright offenders in other communities like webdesign and font design. Now we got'em. :) Be weary of beta testers. a big chuck peer to peer warez comes from beta testers. They get it and give it to two friends, they give it to two friends, etc , etc. People say all Vicki's look alike. If the morphs are from scratch then they shouldn't. Red flags can include notorous shapes and features seen over and over. Just something to look for. Look for lasterpiece works of perfection from newbies. Usually sign that something might be wrong. Not that there is any foul play but there may be a informed mistake in the making. Again just something to look for.

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