Nosfiratu opened this issue on Mar 30, 2001 ยท 42 posts
hauksdottir posted Fri, 30 March 2001 at 11:59 PM
The creator of a work may not have time to check every site for rip-off artists. Even the corporations which make nice packaged software and ship it globally can't watch everywhere. It hurts when someone hands you a shrinked-wrapped copy of a game you made, pirated and produced overseas, and you didn't a get a nickle's royalties for the time and blood... but at least you know who the pirate was. It hurts when you see your art in print with someone else's name as the originator... but you know who "signed" it, and who published it. We rely upon friends and colleagues to spot these things for us and bring them to our attention. Knowing hurts, but not knowing hurts even more. If you see a CD at ebay labed Pozer4, let CuriousLabs know. If you see a compilation of models ripped off the Freestuff, put out the word in the community. You may not have time to do more than that... but that at least reveals the scope of the problem. And, most important, don't buy from pirates. Carolly