mi-scha opened this issue on Jul 06, 2001 ยท 73 posts
Dr Zik posted Fri, 06 July 2001 at 8:43 PM
Hi Folks! Clearly, the loss of a great Poser resource. Earlier today (7/6) I spent nearly an hour trying to get a prospective web site client to understand why I was refusing to use images of other people's original artwork (including some pretty famous ones) on his commercial website. He had not obtained permission to use any of them. His rationale? "Well, they're all dead!" We unfortunately live in a time when in a lot of people's mind something isn't wrong until you get caught or someone gets angry enough to retaliate. The deeper tragedy of this episode is that these folks who use bootleg versions of retail software, mass downloaders, or shameless copies of other people's digital props see absolutely nothing wrong with it. And they have no sense about how their actions hurt the rest of us. Traveler's site is just another in a growing procession of online resources that will shut down or drastically reduce their access because of the ethically bankrupt individuals who are out here in cyberspace--and among us. Peter (Dr Zik)