Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Interesting way to kill the Poser/Daz pirates.

kljpmsd opened this issue on Mar 09, 2015 · 254 posts


Morkonan posted Tue, 10 March 2015 at 1:44 PM

The Indian film industry has an interesting idea.  I'll bet if all the content creators stopped producing new stuff and took all their content off the broker's sites (like this one), the pirates would realize what they're doing to the industry. 

http://torrentfreak.com/movie-group-to-kill-piracy-by-not-releasing-movies-for-months-150309/

... I don't even.. "Bollywood", known for ripping off any IP possible in order to make a buck, is saying that they shouldn't release any movies for three months in order to put piracy websites out of business?

First of all, they can all take a flying leap through a rolling doughnut. They specialize in putting out crap not worth watching to audiences who are starved for anything. I'm sure there are some great flicks produced by Bollywood, so they're surely not all rip-offs of Hollywood IPs. Right? Right?

This is a non-solution. It's not even wrong. This solution is saying "In order to defeat piracy on the high seas, we just won't go anywhere for three months!" And, once they start going somewhere or start releasing movies, again? What happens? Riiiight.

I can't stand pirates. They kill creators. They destroy the business model that people use in order to feed their kids. They actually limit the amount of quality available in a distributors products by making those quality, skillfully crafted, products unprofitable to produce. The way to get rid of them is simple - Arrest them. Shut down the sites. Nuke them from orbit. Dump "alertware" in false products that "phones home" to a watchdog to alert authorities of stolen intellectual property. Force third-party authentication schemes. Give out dongles with Poser and DS that ties a fingerprint to purchased products.

Of course, all of that makes the environment less pleasant for honest users and could, eventually, kill the products those consumers are trying to purchase content for. Unrelenting piracy will eventually kill whatever it preys upon, just like any unrestrained parasite.