I just found heaps of DAZ content on the iClone Reallusion Facebook page being redistributed by a person called Asif.
Reported it but fear by the sheer number this has now become a warez page.
Not the first 3D Facebook page doing this either, I have left many people added me to but I followed this one probably 10 years and it was very quiet up until now just posting official Reallusion stuff.
However it is an across the board problem, I even witnessed it at DAZ but they pull the stuff if found out (is rouge Premier Artists who do it).
My point is how do you know if something has not been stolen from someone else?
This is why sites like Renderhub are a no go for me too.
The blatant game ripping is no better than stealing some poor Artistâs work.
Is one thing to be inspired by something else, while questionable the artist still models the stuff but outright pilfering???
the sad thing is 58 of my friends including some PAs are mutual friends of this person and when he replied to me after I linked the products in the DAZ store it was to say he was *helping people *.
There is no getting through to them. I am the bad guy to them for not helping.
He was not the pirate, he was linking to the pirate.
Which is just as bad.
You arenât the âbad guyâ for standing up for whatâs right and youâre right, there is no getting through to them. All you can do is report and move-on.
yeah ended up deleting my post linking his profile and asking why this person has 58 mutual DAZ using friends with me including PAs when he is linking to warez, before Facebook got involved as it would likely constitute harassment on my behalf to them.
Are all well known regular users you would have in your friends list too.
possibly they were unaware.
I blocked him and moved on, Zendesk has the group link.
A lot of pirates use the âhelping peopleâ argument. I donât buy it. The psychology of software pirates is something of a mystery to me, but I donât think that being generous with other peopleâs stuff is as heroic or altruistic as they like to pretend. Both my partner and myself are writers and weâve seen our books uploaded to pirate sites, put there by those who claim that they are âhelpingâ. The truth is that most creators, be they 3D content PAs, or publishers or writers, or whatever, make vanishingly little money from their efforts, and when someone decides for themselves that our work ought to be free, it does real damage.
As to the question of âhow can we recognize pirate sites?â I think that the answer is âIf it costs money on a site like DAZ 3D, or Renderosity, but itâs free on site X, then site X is almost certainly a pirate site and needs to come down.â There are, of course, also pirate sites that charge money for stolen content, and theyâre real scum. Theyâre still often easy to recognize, though, because their prices tend to be too good to be true. If you see an entire artistâs catalogue offered for download for $20, but you know that each item sells for $24.95 on DAZ 3D, then youâre definitely looking at a pirate site.
I donât have a problem with robbing the rich to feed the poor, but Robin Hood (*) had some skin in the game: if he got caught trying to help the unfortunate, the authorities would have hanged him for it. The pirates risk essentially nothing.
In any case, the pirates arenât robbing the rich to feed the poor. Theyâre robbing the poor to stroke their own egos.
(*) Yes, yes, Robin Hood was not a real historical figure. Or if he was, he was quite likely a very different character, a guerilla leader named William of Cassingham. Who, ironically, was actually a partisan of King John, who is the ultimate villain in the Robin Hood stories.
Ignoring the poor is not much of a problem for you either, Iâd assume. Not only ignoring but further hinder them to get access to certain things that are no problem to get for you.
Sometimes, to me, the âpiratesâ are the real heroes.
With what? Since Blender has become a serious alternative to big 3D suites like 3ds Max/Maya Zbrush etc. I donât have to pirate them anymore, but before that I used to. Why? - Because in order to pay for a 1 year license i would have to work for 10 years and not spend a dollar in my country, thatâs why.
So when someone uploads a cracked software or a super expensive add-on, He/She IS helping those who need it most.
Now about models. I donât feel pity for DAZ when people are sharing they models among themselves in communities. DAZ is a scumbag company itselfâŠ
I would not reccomend buying products from 3D market places at all. Instead itâs much better to commission artists directly. So the product will be yours and only yours. You can share it or not.
But if you put a product for let say $25 on a marketplace, some will buy it, and some who bought it, will share it with others who cannot buy it.
Now, there are scumbags who ask for money for pirated products. Those are disgusting even to me.
You want freestuff, Epic Games for example gives away awesome 3D content the first Tuesday of every month.
There is no excuse to steal anything because there is so much legitimately free content out there and Blender is free of course, I use Carrara myself mostly and that is not that dear but other programs like Hexagon are free also.
The fact is those using warez want something in addition that isnât free that someone is trying to sell to make a living brokered through DAZ who already takes 50%.
Not many PAs I know of are rich, many struggling, not only financially but some with their health too.
Itâs often the only job they can do because of physical limitations.
Ready Player Me VR avatars converted to FBX from gltf in Blender, imported into Unreal Engine, Alchemist lowpoly art set free this month, Animaze facial capture for Vlogs, Skype, and itâs editor to import the gltf files for avatars free on Steam.
The fake zoom group was edited in Hitfilm Express
Ok I used a bit of iClone for the very last bit at the end but otherwise everything is free, the motions can all be grabbed off Mixamo and Actorcore for free and retargeted in Unreal or Blender too.
the scene is a game Asset and because free for the month and not an Epic games only one but a vendor contribution the licensing allows use in other game engines too.
My Nr. 1 free 3D models site would be https://archive3d.net/
Some of the models come with basic textures, but slapping newer PBR mats on them makes them look really great.
otherwise its great!