Quote: ....and I can tell ya.....dealing with pirates is not a way to grow ones name or reputation. Reputations are made by creating quality products, and marketing them to customers who appreciate them. If as you say, pirates simply download and never use the products, there is obviously no appreciation, and no customer......and do you really think they care about who made the product?...come on...of course not.

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Well that sure is something to consider thinking about . there are some arguments about " do they care Who made it" I think they do ! as for in most cases things do not seem as they would steal the product pretending they made it . it rather shows up with an original Promo and a credit for the creator and the store, what brings us back to Free publicity. so why if they Steal would they give Credit and make publicity for the product on where it is possible to purchase or get?

Assuming a robbery of jewelery I don't think that the Robbers would go out and say hey I got it from this guy and here is the a dress that would not make any sense and brings me a little into a conflict.

I think that allot of these places are gold mines for the industry! they grow fast get many members hit the top of the charts, they get sold to industries to place adds as to spend 10'000$ for 200'000 hits might be worth more then to place it into TV for a million a minute.

but the argument is not that Sharing or pirating should be supported the argument is does an encryption really prevent it or does it put it more at risc? as I said there are allot of Hackers just waiting for such opportunities.( I guess they see it as a challenge )

And why did DAZ first state we will encrypt and just short after they state it will be just for a Year then you might do with it what you want. this would mean that they sure what to get there idea to live no matter what but realized that it is a RISC.

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A statement like this one
Quote :Thornton and the team “We have great investors, the best products in the industry and a laser-focused vision of where we are going.”

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this means that plans are made years before they show a Political tactic to get costumers used to there ides. not really stating "our Artists offer the best products in the Industry and we have a laser focused vision on how to Promote them " the statement tells me they take the whole credit not even mentioning that it is not theres but that they just represent the products of the Artists the Creator remains the original copyright holder and should be treated this way.