https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1289&p=18789#p18789
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Thursday, 17 February 2005, 08:24 AM


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I don't like it.  I don't like it at all.

Art grows on diversity of styles, not on monopolies.  Looking through history, whenever a monopoly controled artistic expression, the art stagnated rather than grow.  Given enough takeovers that there can become a virtual monopoly of this sort of art.  In which case site like this one will be the mavericks that will keep the traditions alive.  But without the massive pool of new talent that a diverse style of websites fosters, what will happen to teh field in general.

It seems to me that DAZ has too much money and does not know what to do with it.  Rather than developing new thinks to expand posibilities for all of us, they are spending their money on already working things and then fix them.

I learned of the takeover when I went to PP and found some pictures missing from the gallery.  It was a cookie problem.  While they did not overly change the appearance of the site, that did change the DNS system for it, and the cookies.  Since I have all cookies turned off, except for the site that I permit the use of cookies for, the new cookie domain did not work until I added it to the permitted sites.  Once done, the missing pictures again appeared.

We will have to see what changes they make to the TOS.  If they are bad enough, then we may each have to make the determination whether we will want to post any more work there or perhaps even pull out what we have alread posted there.

Pangor