Quote - Probably a majority of the people who pirate products would never buy, but in a market where 500 sales is considered a successful release, even if 10% of the people who do pirate would buy stuff it could almost double the sales, and as such you would have more venders who could activly make products.

It does take alot of time and effort to make a product, and when it is pirated within hours of release it really does make you wonder why you even bother.

 

I am gladsmoe vendors continue to bother but I mourn the loss of some very talented vendors due to the 'must have it for free' brigade.

With the exception of the items that are offered for free, I paid for every piece of software I use, 3D related or not.  I never pass on copies of my software, even to friends yet I am regarded as being wierd by many.  Now I know am probably wierd, buy not for this reason although I do wonder if I am in the minority.  I suspect that I am in a healthy majority but the pirates get more attention.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.