ronknights opened this issue on Jun 28, 2002 ยท 123 posts
whoopdat posted Sat, 29 June 2002 at 1:39 AM
I saw this thread earlier and only glanced over it. When I came back, I was searching for the link that USED to be here but couldn't find it thanks to the goofy TOS I imagine. That aside, I ended up finding what this all started from (read: the former link), and I see that DAZ (hereafter typed as daz because I'm lazy) has put their collective feet in their mouth (not just one foot, but two). If one looks at the various FAQs and responses, one would be led to believe it's illegal to well...do anything that even results in any sort of reflection of a daz product, i.e. a piece of clothing that fits a daz model, or some other such item. Well, that would never stand up in court, but they have money. How about a class action lawsuit? I'm no lawyer, but those seem nifty. Or what about one of those various groups that supports software folks being pushed around by big companies? Anyhow, that stuff aside, since I really think that's taking the extreme possibilities route, I believe daz will see what people are saying and realize how confusing they are on their stance and how bad an idea it is (relating to the various things they proposed for morphs). If some of this must stick, maybe we'll at least get a clear list on what's "acceptable" and what is not. (I don't see using the bodysuit as a particularly good replacement for a body, especially if you need to show some skin. Mapping a body texture onto one to "replace" the body just seems like it'd result in something ugly, making the bodysuit only useful as a full article of clothing, hopped up on morphs or not, which makes it only partially useful.) Now, I know we're still trying to figure out what's going on, but we also don't have all of the information, which also makes it difficult to understand the possible ramifications, though it doesn't mean we shouldn't try, just let's not go overboard. Let's give them some time to respond and then, and only then, will we really know what to do. In the meanwhile, who's going to start on the freeware models? ;)