http://www.max3d.pl/modele_1super.php He's taking Poser meshes and posting them as Max files. He's got some of my stuff and I recognize some other folks stuff. Who is handling the piracy at DAZ now? I think I see some DAZ meshes too.

Jeez, not another one :( sales@daz3d.com would probably be a good place to report this to. Kev.

nerd, That would be me. Thanx for the heads up. I have notified (via email, ICQ, & IM on his forum) the webhost owner, (Mr. Adrian Adek), that he has 24 hours to remove the illegal meshes. If not I will contact his webhost, GRY-ONLINE-PL, (Jerzy.Pawlus@cyf-kr.edu.pl) & have the pages shut down.

kbennet, Daz maintains a mailbox just for reporting situations like this... abuse@daz3d.com, which also auto sends to my personal email. Emailing sales, or tech just slows the process down until it gets forwarded to the right people.

Isn't that the Lara Croft from Animotions?

Joey, Yes that's Phil Hokusais' Lara Croft

I think I saw the Poser Guy's head in there too.

Yes that is my Lara Croft all right. Shhesh, the guy did not even bother to change her pose from the default. Lord Nakagawa - "The artist formerly known as Phil Hokusai"

Thanks cooler, I guessed it would be so, but a quick trawl - and it was quick ;) - only showed me the sales@ addy. Glad you're on it. Kev.

Phil, In his defense, (& the reason I contacted him directly) is he may not know that they are not freely distributable. In fact your, & the other illegal meshes have been passed around more than a cheap date on prom night. I checked my records & in the past 5 months I've had the same models yanked from 3 Russian, 1 Thai, & 1 German site. In this case someone named "Garfield" has claimed to have created the model exclusively for distribution from Mr. Adeks page :-)

Garfield? hmm I wonder if Jim Davis knows what his cat is up to, besides scarfing lasagna and picking on Odie :-) A note on past offenders - Lady Luna, who if I recallcorrectly , got on a few people's (s)hit list here has some new hair props up over on Commune, maybe someone should pop over there and check them out to see if they are ligit

Thanks Cooler, didn't know if you were still on pirate patroll. I couldn't find the anonomous tip line at DAZ ;-)

Hey LordNakagawa, Cooler here's another place... Same stuff http://www.3dm-mc.com/modelsbank/details.php?image_id=248 MAN! my trigger finger in itching! I know it's just freebies, but the least they could do is say who really made it!

"but the least they could do is say who really made it!" Ah, yes. The "moral rights". We usually complain about copyright violaters, because that is often the basis for economic damages. However, artists have another entire suite of rights once they create a work of art. (Art done as employment or work-for-hire doesn't get these rights, art done under contract gets some of them.) We have the right to claim the work as ours, or to renounce it. We can show it in our portfolios. We have the right to insist that it not be altered by others. We can make conditions for how the work is displayed or used. When work of high value resales, we are even supposed to get a small percentage royalty on that sale. Of course, the most important thing is the link between our name and the work of art we created out of our own mind. When these brats swipe our work, alter it, and then give credit to somebody else, they are violating much more than copyright laws. (And, yes, these protections are international... the U.S. is still a laggard on some of them.) Carolly

The models have been removed from both sites. In both cases, it seems, they were supplied by a third party. I'm in the process of running him down now.

Hey cooler the supplier seems to be http://www.yaratsch.mnc.pl One of the other sites answered me and gave this address as his source.

that's the gentleman I'm currently working on :-)

((((((((((((Cooler)))))))))) Keep up the great work! Nerd great heads up. ((((hugs))))

your, & the other illegal meshes have been passed around more than a cheap date on prom night. ROFLMAO - sorry that was too funny!!