
for work I have to bid against kids who are using illegal software and who therefore have lower costs to account for which means more attractive offers to the companies offering the work.
Also it forces the price up to cover production costs which means honest people like me have to pay more (you wankers)
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Tue 30 May 2006, 8:12,
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Also it forces the price up to cover production costs which means honest people like me have to pay more (you wankers)

Whether contractors are using legal software huh?
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Tue 30 May 2006, 8:16,
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as the fine for illegal software use is being spread between the twat using it and the company paying him to.
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Tue 30 May 2006, 8:17,
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I've never made money at 3D art and believe it or not I don't pirate 3D software. I use free tools only. (e.g. Aqsis, Wings3D)
:P
That and I write my own software. Working on a subdiv modeling/rendering package now.
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Tue 30 May 2006, 8:18,
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:P
That and I write my own software. Working on a subdiv modeling/rendering package now.

My biggest gripe with piracy is simply the fact that these people are cnuts to their fellow man.
How would they like it if the project they passionately worked on for months if not years, that was the basis for their family's income was stolen and given away free to anyone and everyone?
I know of several plugin manufacturers that are literally 2 or 3 people who's only income comes from programming such things. Every pirate copy directly hits them very hard.
They're almost all really nice people too. :(
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Tue 30 May 2006, 8:20,
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How would they like it if the project they passionately worked on for months if not years, that was the basis for their family's income was stolen and given away free to anyone and everyone?
I know of several plugin manufacturers that are literally 2 or 3 people who's only income comes from programming such things. Every pirate copy directly hits them very hard.
They're almost all really nice people too. :(

Nice stuff (esp. the 2D art)
Edit: yeah. I think I'm going to build into mine a way to connect to the master server and "phone home" so to speak. Then if it's not registered I'll upload goat pron onto their computers and e-mail all their family members they're becoming JWs.
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Tue 30 May 2006, 8:21,
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Edit: yeah. I think I'm going to build into mine a way to connect to the master server and "phone home" so to speak. Then if it's not registered I'll upload goat pron onto their computers and e-mail all their family members they're becoming JWs.