Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A sad conclusion to have to draw ...

Phantast opened this issue on Aug 07, 2001 ยท 14 posts


Phantast posted Tue, 07 August 2001 at 5:27 AM

One of the supposed principles of the Internet as a system is that you don't need to store files locally, you can get what you want when you need it. It doesn't work with respect to Poser. There were some files recently that I had seen before on a particular site which I now find would be useful to me. But when I go to download them - they've all been pulled off the site. The moral one has to draw is that if you see a site with good material on it, download EVERYTHING whether you need it or not, because otherwise, when you DO need it, it won't be there anymore. But of course, if you do this, and particularly if everyone does it, the site gets hit so badly it gets pulled all the sooner. It's like "prisoner's dilemma", really. Of course, being able to access other people's work for free is a privilege not a right, and privileges can be withdrawn. That's fair enough. But the instability of popular sites does encourage a "grab everything now" approach and life would be easier all round if this were not so.