Holli opened this issue on Mar 15, 2005 ยท 36 posts
Qualien posted Tue, 15 March 2005 at 1:58 PM
This thread is answering some questions I've had. In Free Stuff I see items which are Add-Ons to relatively obscure Poser products, and the Add-Ons have been downloaded thousands of times. Which would mean that if all the downloaders had paid, a lot of merchants are making a lot more money than I had imagined. "Wow! Making Poser stuff must be an easy way to get rich," I thought. But then something tells me that this may not be true.
It never occured to me that so many people would download something useless to them. I just assumed that most of the downloaders had gotten the for-pay product as warez, or from a friend who had paid.
Does anybody have a guess as to what percentage of the owners and users of the average MP product are not paying owners but are using it illegally? I presume it's greater than 0% but how much greater? Any guesses?
I also wondered if there is some kind of bot or something which automatically downloads everything in Free Stuff.