Nails60 posted at 2:16PM Sat, 30 November 2019 - #4371783

consumer573,

There is a difference between someone using a free program and someone using a paid for program for free. The latter is demonstrating that they do not believe that to be theft, or do not care, either way it still suggests they would have no qualms about using pirated content.

If you are suggesting Bondware giving away poser, that is entirely a different business model, but I would imagine initial losses could be significant before any increase in content sales appear.

I see your distinction. It was/is not my intent to get into an ethical argument. I do believe that the majority of people who are going to use Poser are ethical and would buy a legitimate copy of Poser if they felt the price was fair. I also believe that the business situation as it exists suggests that if people felt the price of Poser was unfair they would be more likely to just download a legitimate version on DAZ. So my conclusion is that any leakage of Poser software due to piracy would be rather small compared to other industries like music and movies. If the success of this niche business game is as I believe, namely marketshare, then I believe more would be won by getting as many copies of Poser out there as possible rather than spending monies and personnel time policing it and dealing with the effects of kill switches.

In my personal case, should my game developer die and there is still a kill switch in Poser software, that is the end of the line for Poser with me. I'm going DAz. There I will be legitimate and not have a capricious software to deal with. I'm fed up with it. And I already own Poser 11.