3DTotal Partners with Conceptart.org Against Piracy

[MStandar]

Yep, i agree with bb0x on that one, like you see on concepart.org, the people they have catched, is usually pretty good, and have jobs in the industry. and well good for them, but they should tought about the consequences before they start pirating stuff.

[hulahuga]

I totally agree that the pirating of "small" sites like this should stop, that's not cool at all. But I do not think that pirating in general won't stop until other means are found... Like spotify; the record labels thought that Spotify would lower their profit, but in the end the new revenue succeeded their previous one.


Btw regarding the wall of shame, is it really legal to show personal photos, records and characteristics without the person's consent? Just thought of this as it wouldn't be good if a case would taken to court that it then appears threedy has done wrong as well

[rocneasta]

we could always organize a boxing match and see if we can beat some sense into 'em

[DeadlyFreeze]

Originally Posted by hulahuga

Btw regarding the wall of shame, is it really legal to show personal photos, records and characteristics without the person's consent? Just thought of this as it wouldn't be good if a case would taken to court that it then appears threedy has done wrong as well

Assuming the person owns the copyright on the photo, they would have to take it down on DMCA request (irony lol), and quiet possibly be liable for slander assuming anyone ever took it that far.

[hulahuga]

Originally Posted by DeadlyFreeze

Assuming the person owns the copyright on the photo, they would have to take it down on DMCA request (irony lol), and quite possibly be liable for slander assuming anyone ever took it that far.

Exactly!

[thee]

Hi Tom/3dtotal I don't know what protection you guys used but I don't think you'll be able to stop piracy of your products. Chrispy4004 I hope piracy won't stop you from doing anymore tutorials I will buy them all.

[Freespace-3DT]

We do realize stopping it entirely might be utopic, but a major decrease is certain.

[JHarford]

Thought I'd pop in and say I support this completely. What CA is doing is great, and the effect of real consequences is the best deterrent. We are not talking about prison time or fines, we are talking about peoples careers and prospects. I know as an employer I will be keeping close watch on these threads and making note of the people involved when hiring comes around. I've seen my tutorials, Ebooks and 3d models on torrent sites and I'm happy someone is organising at least a step toward justice. This something for nothing as a fundamental right culture needs to come to an end. What a great day

[hawk12ht]

Hi, sry to read this all but still people will do torrent thing, so just sharing my thoughts. Why not try authentication system for ebooks, I recently bought mental ray light setup book from 3dt shop and it has external links to download files, so why not insert some sort of verifier that let only valid users download files.
Also im very not pleased to see ebooks that i paid for on torrent sites!!!

[keescopyright]

3dtotal struggling or not, you are doing it wrong. I will be the ONLY one (so far) taking a stand for free information. This whole internet thing is being killed by sad people protecting there tiny little investment; like some dvd sales. You don't seem to realize what incredible damage you are doing to this magnificent invention, because all you care about is the money. There are ways of income; commercials and information trade are easier than ever before. Adobe is gathering a monopoly and you are adapting its evil tactics. I am not with this last hopeless and sad effort you are putting out there. I can not believe the hypocracy in all of you: as if you haven't downloaded mp3s, movies, software, libraries and fonts, as if you were the ones casting the first stone... If you could download money you would. I will call all of you liars.

The point is this: these pirates you speak of are the people making the internet. no one is innocent. Best you found a way to profit from this immense database of a particular target-group you have built. Even Microsoft does not target individuals pirating their OS because they know that individuals need to create affinity with your software so that THAT will be the software they use in their companies. and the same thing goes for stock-textures.

Make sure you profit by putting your OWN torrents out there; for instance with a plea in there, a file that, when opened visits all of your benefactors websites so that they can pay you for the hits.

Originally Posted by rocneasta

we could always organize a boxing match and see if we can beat some sense into 'em

and rocneasta: "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED" -I live in Holland anywhere in Holland will be fine for a glorified sparring match... i will beat some sense into you and after that ill beat you at a chess game. you simple being.

I wonder if I will be removed here...

[Sathe]

Looks like I'll be the brutally honest one here as per usual... when I was starting out I think I did illegally use some 3dtotal stuff as I'm sure many of you giving your "support" in this thread have too. of course as soon as I got a job that type of **** ended and I've been trying to give back to them in my own way since but the simple fact is, if you are a dirty naive child ******* like I was don't just drop a "oh i hope it gets better". do something ****en about it....

Report all rapidshare links A.S.A.P

[MStandar]

I know what you saying sathe. And i can recognise myself abit in that. Sure i have used pirated software, but nowadays you can, get things that is almost as good, as the real deal. For example blender or sculpttris. But i have always believed that, the majority of people think that its okay to download if its from a big name, say like Autodesk or Adobe. Like it wouldnt hurt someone. But again nowadays i have realised that there is solutions other than pirating. Like student versions and the awesome free softwares that is out.

Just think about it. Is it worth it? And what would you say if it was your stuff being pirated. And actually one of the tutorials that have helped me the most, was a free one. And that was. Your modeling techniques videos you poster years back. so thanks sathe

[DeadlyFreeze]

....and the **** just hit the fan.

[Tom-3DT]

Originally Posted by keescopyright

3dtotal struggling or not, you are doing it wrong. I will be the ONLY one (so far) taking a stand for free information. This whole internet thing is being killed by sad people protecting there tiny little investment; like some dvd sales. You don't seem to realize what incredible damage you are doing to this magnificent invention, because all you care about is the money. There are ways of income; commercials and information trade are easier than ever before. Adobe is gathering a monopoly and you are adapting its evil tactics. I am not with this last hopeless and sad effort you are putting out there. I can not believe the hypocracy in all of you: as if you haven't downloaded mp3s, movies, software, libraries and fonts, as if you were the ones casting the first stone... If you could download money you would. I will call all of you liars.

The point is this: these pirates you speak of are the people making the internet. no one is innocent. Best you found a way to profit from this immense database of a particular target-group you have built. Even Microsoft does not target individuals pirating their OS because they know that individuals need to create affinity with your software so that THAT will be the software they use in their companies. and the same thing goes for stock-textures.

Make sure you profit by putting your OWN torrents out there; for instance with a plea in there, a file that, when opened visits all of your benefactors websites so that they can pay you for the hits.



and rocneasta: "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED" -I live in Holland anywhere in Holland will be fine for a glorified sparring match... i will beat some sense into you and after that ill beat you at a chess game. you simple being.

I wonder if I will be removed here...

A good post for the most part with a lot of interesting points (apart from the fighting bit at the end) and if you could just tone it down a bit about generally trying to call others loosers then you have the start of a good debate.

We do rely on the internet and all visitors to the site to help boost revenues with regards to banner ads, and I agree that people who pirate software are a percentage of these visitors, but if you took these out of the equation and also took the piracy of our products out of the equasion then we would be a lot more successful. We also put 90-95% of all of our profits back into the business whether it be free tutorials or commercial training, so in the end the majority of users would be a lot better off. Take the free reference/texture library we now host, we have spent over $5000 on this so far and we have big plans for it, and guess where the majority of that $5000 came from, yep all the people who purchased our emags and ebooks.

Your right, the internet is an incredible invention and the free information is amazing, that is why around 80% of our content is available for free even video tutorials and over 3,000 pages over free 'written' tutorials, when people pirate the remaining 20% which is the commercial side that pays for the other free 80% it doesn't really seem right does it? and Even though you make some good points I don't think they really stand up in the 3DTotal business model I have explained above.

Happy to carry on this discussion with you or anyone, it's rare we ban people here just generally try to calm things down a bit, thanks everyone else for your comments of support too, please avoid any abuse to stop this thread flaming up and it should turn out to be a good one.

cheers

Tom

[rocneasta]

Originally Posted by keescopyright

and rocneasta: "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED" -I live in Holland anywhere in Holland will be fine for a glorified sparring match... i will beat some sense into you and after that ill beat you at a chess game. you simple being.

I wonder if I will be removed here...

I wonder if you red about sarcasm in a dictionary... i won't comment your opinion since you obviously know my physical and mental strength. Too bad you're not my friend since you so obviously know me.

again note the use of sarcasm