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pay or free has absolutely nothing to do with fighting piracy.
Many designers share their models freely but want to control where, when and how they are distributed.
Thats their right.
In some cases, they distribute free models but make revenue from site traffic and visitors in other ways.
When someone copies and redistributes their model, they are "stealing" traffic and other potential rewards from the designer.
Some "pirates" want to steal the attention and rewards of distributing models that are not theirs.
In this case we are talking about alicemodels who grab whatever kits they can, free or retail, and sell them as printed kits without any permissions.
They are not controlled by retail kits.
Uhu's models are a prime example...these have always been completely free and only available as digital downloads.
And yet, hes probably the most pirated designer ever.
And unfortunately...Alicemodel's biggest sellers up to now.
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