Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: iMesh - Is this pirating?

Mason opened this issue on Jun 24, 2002 ยท 36 posts


lmckenzie posted Tue, 25 June 2002 at 3:15 AM

This seems to be just another peer-to-peer file sharing system like the infamous Napster. They've been popping up for the last couple of years and can be used to transfer whatever you like, legal or illegal. I'm sure someone on the iMesh network might be "giving away" Poser, Microsoft Office or anything else you can think of. With the growing presence of high speed internet connections, it's difficult to prevent any digital content from being hijacked. In a reaction, a lot of companies are pushing for laws that will allow them to do things like remotely disable their software via the internet I'm all for protecting people's intellectual property but some of the steps they'd like to use in doing so are just a little scary. BTW searching their user forum, the only reference to poser I found is this: "The Win95.CIH.1003 (Chernobyl virus) has been found in these Poser files: Daz3D - Millennium Girls Morphing Clothing Pak 1 Zygote Daz3D Victoria - Changing Fantasy Suit If you have these files and have not scanned them yet, please do so. This will prevent your machine from being infected and will stop the spread to other users. Thanks!" Sounds like the pirates got burned :-).

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