Niles opened this issue on Feb 12, 2002 ยท 28 posts
Penguinisto posted Wed, 13 February 2002 at 1:41 PM
Attached Link: http://www.overlawyered.com
Cacheforce is free to do what they will - I'm just explaining what (IMHO) DAZ was probably thinking in keeping their models as neutered as possible. As for the lawsuits, you'd be amazed. Say they catch a paedophile, and discover a huge collection of Poser-made smut on his hard drive. Now, imagine that DAZ and Curious Labs provided default kids w/ genitals. Anyone even remotely related to the paedophile's real-life victims could then get a very solid case against CL and DAZ for "encouraging" the paedophile... not too many juries would reject the argument, either. Yes it sounds far-fetched. Yes it even sounds facetious in some lights. OTOH, there is a little old lady running around with $3 million because she spilled hot McDonald's coffee on her lap. Head on over to the link I supplied - you'll see that it's just the tip of the iceberg. Now, Cacheforce may not be all that big of a company, and therefore their level of risk tolerance is probably much higher than CL or DAZ, who have a lot more jobs and assets to protect from such a thing. Me? I have no problems with how they build models either way, since I'm not a paedophile, and to be honest, I have no use at all for a nude child model in anything I do, or would want to do. OTOH, if I were building commercial versions of child models and making one hell of a profit from selling 'em, I'd damned sure sit down at the board meeting and think through all the more obvious 'what-if?' scenarios to cover both my public relations and my risk-management butts respectively. Why no adult female genitals by default? (shrug) - you got me there; I haven't the slightest idea. /P