I think that actual, or potential losses are impossible to quantify though I doubt that most of the cracked copies of Max. Maya etc. downloaded are sales that never happened. OTOH, it's possible that a few people woh snagged a Poser item of P2P might have coughed up $10-$15 to pay for it if there were no other alternative. That's not even petty cash to Daz, much less AutoDesk but I'm sure it means something to a small vendor.

I'll chalk up the tone in DA's original post to frustration. Still, the folks likely to commit mayhem on their hard drives in response probably couldn't find TPB with Google and a flashlight. The fear and shame tactic might be popular with the MPAA/RIAA, but I'd think about asking how it's working for them before I used it on the folks who might be naturally sympathetic to my cause.

Somewhat OT, a few years ago, I reported a site to Daz that was promoting dozens of pirated pieces of Daz content. I received a nice two line 'Thank you for supporting Daz,' response. Now I know that virtue is it's own reward and it was selfish of me to expect even a $10 gift certificate in return but I can only assume that in their eyes none of those downloads amounted to a sales loss. The site was taken down though.

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