kljpmsd opened this issue on Mar 09, 2015 · 254 posts
WandW posted Thu, 12 March 2015 at 10:18 AM
Morkonan, We've obviously taken some of the same marketing and business courses. I've been snooping around the pirate's butts long enough to understand (but not like) their attitudes. A niche market like ours could easily die because of theft and I find that intolerable. I'm hoping that engaging them in conversations will turn a few from the dark side and make them paying customers. There has yet to be a software or hardware solution that's lasted more than a few minutes under pressure from the cracker/hackers so that method is a waste of time. The vendors could also be doing a lot more issuing of takedown notices in the torrent sites. This is the most popular distribution method and only Renderotica issues DMCA complaints. There's one main torrent site for Poser/Daz stuff and I never see their stuff there.
The vendors themselves could also take a little time to engage the pirates in the sharing forums. If they saw that the content artists are just regular folks trying to make a few lousy bucks doing something they are passionate about, I'm certain it would turn a few. I confess to having been a serious (and damned proud of it!) pirate for many decades but was turned by gaming. I loved the Half Life universe and began buying the games and add-ons to support it. It felt so good that when I left games for Poser, I continued supporting the artists.
This might work for the original uploaders, but I think those who post download links may not even be involved in 3D, but are likely in it for the money, by way of the kickbacks that the download sites give to those whose files get downloaded...
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