thewishmaster opened this issue on Nov 18, 2003 ยท 121 posts
fauve posted Wed, 19 November 2003 at 2:48 PM
A couple of things:
After the textures were identified as Zrincx's, several people posted about removing the textures and reposting just the character as a freebie. That's why I pointed out that the morphs were also made from a commercial item, "Eva" by soccer_coach, so nothing about the character was kosher for distribution. (That and I had to take a moment to fully savor the irony of it, which still has me chuckling.) There were also a set of genital magnets in the character which I didn't examine closely (and probably wouldn't recognize if I did, since I don't own any of those packages) -- if those weren't made by Wishmaster, then there's a third person whose work was also included in this freebie, presumably without permission.
The mat files for the "Jenny" character contained references to Zrincx's original textures, in a directory with Zrincx's name on it. The textures themselves don't seem to have been altered at all except to have Zrincx's copyright removed. The morphs from soccer_coach's character were all present in the "Jenny" character completely unaltered, except for an attempt to change the ones named "Eva" to "Jenny" -- not to remove the morphs, mind you, but to change the identifying name. Wishmaster doesn't claim that he also got the Eva character from the "Jap site", so he must have bought it from the Renderosity MP. Even with the copyright notices on the store pages and in the item readme, he thought it was okay to distribute a product that he'd purchased for free? I'm all for giving people second chances, and in fact have advocated pretty strongly for it in some cases, but to accept that both the texture and the morphs were innocent mistakes is straining credibility.
Wishmaster still hasn't posted the readme from the file he says he downloaded from this "Jap site". He must have the readme, because he quoted from it a few comments into this thread to say that it okayed "free distribution." So whose name is in this readme? What's the URL to the website where it was downloaded? After all, from what Wishmaster said it looks like someone out there is still offering Zrincx's textures as warez. If Wishmaster is sorry, the best way to show it would be to give Zrincx every bit of info he has on where the file came from so Zrincx can stop the ripoff. I'm also betting that the Japanese Poser community would like to know, since they do not appear to be at all tolerant of pirated items and, in fact, seem to pride themselves on their very considerable skills in making everything from scratch. This represents a slur on their reputation.
Apologies are wonderful, and Wishmaster's seem very sincere and whole-hearted; kudos to him for not just turning tail and running. But there are still some unanswered questions here.