Attached Link: http://www.poserpros.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5526

*"If the new app loads old figures from Poser that easily there may be a problem. It's called theft."* No, it is not. We've been wrangling with this issue for quite awhile, and all teh relevant stuff is idling in Poser Pros, at the provided link. Reading external formats is not theft, else Winamp would be paying royalties for.mp3 format, Every Tom, Dick, and Harry's l33t-0 image viewer would be paying Unisys for opening LZW-compressed files (they don't), and Sun Microsystems (OpenOffice.org) would be shelling out exorbitant sums of cash to Microsoft just for the right to open .doc, .xls, .ppt, and .mdb formats. As long as the format isn't encrypted, it is not illegal (or the DMCA, which is why I mentioned encryption) to open or import it. The legalities lie in exports, and in saving the file. This will require paying royalties on a patent (not copyright, but a patent) to use the encoding process, if Curious Labs has even applied for the patent on the .pz3/.pp2/.fc2/etc formats at all. Also, even notepad can open a .pz3 file insofar as programs go, aaand, a .pz3 file is essentially a re-arranged .obj file, often with absolute data stripped out of it to accomodate "characters." Incidentally, why is it that POV-Ray isn't paying royalties to CL for converting .pz3 to .pov files? /P