Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: Me venting on the future of Daz Studio

GeorgeWeber opened this issue on May 04, 2025 ยท 79 posts


Torquinox posted Mon, 05 May 2025 at 9:40 PM

Piracy is not only taking money from Daz or whatever company. It's also taking money from the people who made the stuff. If everybody takes pirate copies, there won't be any money for the stores or the creators and that will be the end of it.

Every store takes a cut, gotta pay the bills. The creators get the rest. I got a friend who published pdfs. I helped him, too. Every product he ever published showed up on a pirate site within 24 hours. Same is true for Daz products, as Richard knows too well. There's no DMCA takedown notice or other recourse for stuff that ends up on pirate sites in countries with no copyright or IP enforcement. My friend and I talked about it a lot! You can't prevent items from turning up on the pirate sites, and can't get them taken down. So what kind of people are downloading the stuff? Mostly people who were never going to buy the stuff anyway. These people are never going to be customers.