Kim222 posted at 10:54AM Wed, 24 February 2016 - #4256886

I would suspect, since I also read the guidelines the same way, there is really nothing protecting a content creator as far as a court of law goes. A messy situation to be sure. One can claim copyright violation but proving it would be a lot more difficult and expensive as well.

Many of the sites that support Pirates use Hosting joints, many have had success in stopping those or at least having the links removed. There is very little one can do beyond that, sadly.

Encryption will not stop anything, except give the creators a false sense of control. But maybe that is Daz3d intent.

There is that bigger issue as I doubt a content creator would have difficulty proving it was theirs as the PC is time file stamped with dates and files etc of all the multiple drafts. The person claiming they created the product would need to provide the evidence that their product precedes these dates or have no defence. A smart operator would be running backups of all this and stored on their external hard drives as a starting point. In the early days depending on the content one would send the proof via regular mail addressed to themselves and retain it unopened so this is just the high tech way of the same. That is the easy part. Taking someone to task for it is a different matter as you outlined - A messy situation and it would want to be worth fighting for because on the odd scrap I have had just the consult and letter sent from a lawyer is costly enough for the victim of such an event, and lawyers do love a victim. tbh I ponder exactly which one of them screwed me more. But there is the principle involved. There is also a difference between stealing the product in its whole form and just copying it. Neither is desirable but I guess one concession would be with the latter at least they got off their butts and did some work towards it and it could be loosely termed inspired by.........

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