I think it's also a question of Daz being more alert on copyright breaches. Back in the day where it was only the Poser characters, it was easy to share because you could share the CR2's. No one said anything about that.

Then came V1 and people still shared CR2's to a degree. But with V2, that avenue was closed, as it was essentially the CR2 that made her different from V1 - they're the same obj, more or less. V2 just has more morphs.

And V3 came out with the V3 Blank, but at that time, people had forgotten that it could be legal to share CR2's given the proper precautions.

Add the commercial element to that as well. Since people found out that they COULD make money on their creations, why shouldn't they? It enabled some people to start doing Poser stuff full time after all. Do not delude yourself: Proper modeling takes TIME. and time IS money.

So I share, and I sell. I share a lot more than I sell but I sell, and I do it because it enables me to have a hobby that pays for itself, something rather rare.

I think a LOT of the money stays in the Poser community, really. I use my money I've made on Poser models to buy other Poser models, and I don't think I'm the only one. Before I started selling, I had no way I could buy online AT ALL, as I didn't have a credit card. But this "commercialism" has, among other things, enabled me to buy Poser 6 and a lot of other cool programs.

Oh and V2 IS a nice model. I recently took her out of the mothbag as well, since I couldn't get my fancy V3 genitals to work. But I had an old version of V2 with built in genitals, so...

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