Shane Wrote:
"If you're against the use and development of digital goods, why are you in this forum Pumeco? Nothing about Poser is tangible."

I'm not against the development or use of digital goods, not at all, I'm against how corporations are using it to screw and manipulate people.  Adobe are basically treating you like a pet rabbit, playing with you by dangling their "Industry Standard" carrot in front of you and seeing how high you'll jump before you give up.  As long as you keep jumping, they'll continue to hold the carrot higher and higher in the air to keep their shareholders happy, because after all, the higher that carrot is, the more money they earn.

That's an entirely different thing to a digital product simply being what it is: a "digital product" - but without all the manipulation built-in.

Again, I can use Primorge and RorrKonn as examples of how they could use digital (and therefore Poser) to their advantage.  There is no problem using a digital product like Poser, it's something that should be embraced and enjoyed.  The problem only arises if they wanted to make a living from it, because there are two routes you can take there, not just one, and if you take the wrong one, you're in the same situation every business who relies on digital will always be in - and that is piracy.

Route 1:
Create in Poser and release a "Digital" book that can be stuck on a torrent site in seconds (lol).

Route 2:
Create in Poser and release an "Analogue" art-book, a tangible product of beauty that cannot be distributed on a torrent at all, not ever (much wiser).

In that example, Route 1 and Route 2 are exactly the same up to a point, because they both used digital in their production.  But what seperates the wise-guys from the idiots are what happens after that, how they choose to distribute it.  Do you release digitally knowing it absolutely will end up on a torrent site, or do you send off your file and have analogue books manufactured from it, books you know you are always going to get you a share of every copy produced?

Like I said, I'll take the analogue route anyday cause it's the only way I know I'll get paid for every copy I put out there.