"Why someone would want to give away copies of software they paid good money for, has never been clear to me. The pirating has to start with a paying customer somewhere."

Hi This is a repost of some info I posted on another forum:

WHY "GIVE" IT AWAY???

to understand "WHY??"You need to know how software/ Content piracy truly works.
last year year one of my buyers at renderosity informed that one of my older (now retired )BVH
products for M2/V2 was being "shared"
and gave me a link to the site where it was posted
having no silly delusions about actually stopping it
I went to the site out of curiousity and traveled deep into the "Rabbit hole" of the Digital content piracy Culture
and here is the reality:
the people responsible for sharing our products are initially are always "Legal buyers"

1)They buy your product from DAZ/rosity etc
for Say $15-30 dollars.

2. They Submit it to their warez forum admins for "validation"
   where it is checked for viruses,Missing files. and in the case of software programs for a serial or a "KRAK instructions"

3. the post gets "Published" in the Forums with your actual product description and promo pics and the feeding frenzy begins
   every downloader is forced to go offsite to various Ad laden File hosting sites that pay members for generating page views like "ShareCG"
   used to do in the past.

4. once you start generating income from your page view hosting sites your "business" becomes self funded
   and you have money to go buy MORE popular DAZ content as soon as it released and the sharing process repeats.

Of course you have second tier "reuploaders" who only download other peoples shares an rehost/reshare them at other sites to milk what little page view income they can get before everyone already has their copy.
and that also takes care of replacing the rare files that actually get pulled
from a Copyright Complaint

Now because of the GLUT in the DAZ /poser content market our products have the Shelf life of a shrimp Salad on the fourth of July
and the quicker DAZ Floods the Market with this repetitive stuff
the faster it get purchased ( at "platinum Club" prices)
and Shared.
Sadly some of the very customers who praise your work here & the DAZ forums ("Awesome release Dude!!! Im off to buy right now!!"),

are the main ones Sharing them to get page view revenue

People like SanctumArt Know this which might account for some of his  Apparent Disdain for these forum "communities"

These File sharing people have "request" forums "legacy" content sections.,
Mac only sections,Full, movie DVD BlueRay Rips, Website templates, high end Stock images and of course.. Music ,

you can even subscribe to a daily newsletter informing you of new uploads and there are thousands of such file hosting services all over the planet.

so there is no point in even Embarking on some noble "Campaign" to get the "pirates" IP addreses etc for such Endeavours are most certainly Folly.

 

 

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