"Coming Soon" Diigitals timer on main Daz page?

Torquinox

melissastjames said:

Kaleb242 said:

Your best line of defense is copyright law — but anonymity and decentralized cryptocurrencies make it very hard to go after criminals that are minting stolen (or derivative) works.

And this is why the entire concept scares the rabbit poobles out of me...it's going to be an open season free-for-all for art thieves to just walk down the aisles of the store and empty the shelves right into their pockets without fear of reprisal.  

Not really more problematic than what already exists. You can download the whole DAZ catalog from pirate sites, including stuff released today. Daz can do nothing about it. Same is true for just about anything published with a pricetag on it.

Kaleb242

DAZ can definitely do things (and does do things) to combat software piracy, and the same is true for artists (and large corporations) going after others for copyright infringement.

Cease and desist letters, legal proceedings, DMCA takedown requests... its time-consuming to protect your work, but its important and necessary.

Torquinox

Kaleb242 said:

DAZ can definitely do things (and does do things) to combat software piracy, and the same is true for artists (and large corporations) going after others for copyright infringement.

Cease and desist letters, legal proceedings, DMCA takedown requests... its time-consuming to protect your work, but its important and necessary.

That can work in the US, but there are plenty of places where none of that will help you.

MelissaGT

Torquinox said:

melissastjames said:

Kaleb242 said:

Your best line of defense is copyright law — but anonymity and decentralized cryptocurrencies make it very hard to go after criminals that are minting stolen (or derivative) works.

And this is why the entire concept scares the rabbit poobles out of me...it's going to be an open season free-for-all for art thieves to just walk down the aisles of the store and empty the shelves right into their pockets without fear of reprisal.  

Not really more problematic than what already exists. You can download the whole DAZ catalog from pirate sites, including stuff released today. Daz can do nothing about it. Same is true for just about anything published with a pricetag on it.

That doesn't mean we should just shrug and be okay with making things *even easier* for thieves to do what they do. By that logic, we should just shrug and be okay with continued environmental boning because the environment is already boned, so who cares. Just sayin'.  

Sevrin

Torquinox said:

Kaleb242 said:

DAZ can definitely do things (and does do things) to combat software piracy, and the same is true for artists (and large corporations) going after others for copyright infringement.

Cease and desist letters, legal proceedings, DMCA takedown requests... its time-consuming to protect your work, but its important and necessary.

That can work in the US, but there are plenty of places where none of that will help you.

Seriously.  In order to make a DMCA takedown request with Google, you have to provide your full contact details, which they then send to the foreign website that's hosting your stuff so they can laugh at you.

Torquinox

melissastjames said:

Torquinox said:

melissastjames said:

Kaleb242 said:

Your best line of defense is copyright law — but anonymity and decentralized cryptocurrencies make it very hard to go after criminals that are minting stolen (or derivative) works.

And this is why the entire concept scares the rabbit poobles out of me...it's going to be an open season free-for-all for art thieves to just walk down the aisles of the store and empty the shelves right into their pockets without fear of reprisal.  

Not really more problematic than what already exists. You can download the whole DAZ catalog from pirate sites, including stuff released today. Daz can do nothing about it. Same is true for just about anything published with a pricetag on it.

That doesn't mean we should just shrug and be okay with making things *even easier* for thieves to do what they do. By that logic, we should just shrug and be okay with continued environmental boning because the environment is already boned, so who cares. Just sayin'.  

What do you propose we actually do about it?