NFT and the Future of Digital Content
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With the Diigitals stuff, at least Daz was building on a previous collaboration with a digital artist. I'm not seeing any Champion licenced stuff in the store. The overlap between Daz customers and people who spend on Champion stuff for the Gram can't be that big. Now if it had been a collaboration with Ensure or Depends, that would have been a different story.
Thanks for the tip; i did get 2 of those stupid nft newsletters it seems- found that out after I set up the filter
And I too had that f... urhm.. MUCH UNWELCOME stupid letter in my inbox today. Now I can't help but question wether to hold to my wait and see approach, or just be done with it. I Like 3d, I Like Daz (usually)... but this is looking more and more like something I want to stay the hell away from and yet I feel a lot like it's being forced onto me (the NFT pushing out Gallery and Forums on the upper navigation list, and now this email)
The only rational explanation for "The Second Coming"-style promotion by DAZ is, that TaFi has ordered them to do it.
If you browse through the auction site, you feel like you are browsing through kindergarten bulleting board. Who in their right mind would want to sell anything on a marketplace that has tens of farts for sale, or tokens for those farts...
Does TaFi own Daz?
That letter is hot garbage.
Perhaps Daz Incorporated should concentrate on it's core business and fix the numerous issues instead of wasting time and money on this rubbish !
Regards
Steve Schoon
Isn't promoting the sale of NFTs actively contributing to the developments of NFTs?
margrave said:
My guess is that it was a branding move because they intended to expand into new channels. Daz3D does one specific kind of digital character customization, Tafi (the platform) does another, and they may have chosen Tafi as the parent company name for any number of reasons (it's snappier, they didn't want it to carry expectations based on the established Daz brand, they expected way more traction on the VRChat front, etc.). But I would be surprised if they were meaningfully different entities.
Edit to note that the official Daz twitter account refers to Tafi as their "sister company."
It is still there it is int eh drop down when you hover over community.
I'm hoping it's an April Fool's joke, and, if not, I'll be unsubscribing to all Daz3D emails and not buying anything again.
Don't punish PAs .. if you're going to protest with your wallet - just stop buying Daz Originals ..
It's just piling on now, but... Unsubscribed from the newsletter last night when I received the referenced email that only solicted NFTs and had nothing to do with DAZ software.
As I said days ago, this scheme isn't a method to market DAZ software to NFT creators, it isn't to educate artists to create NFTs... It's to market NFTs to DAZ's already existing customer base, us.
I just submitted a help ticket asking whether it is possible to unsubscribe just from NFT newsletters, and suggesting that it might be a good idea to differentiate newsletters so people can only subscribe to what they're interested in. I'm not expecting anything to come of it, but it's a marginally clearer signal than just filtering.
I'm curious to know if they consulted with the PAs or at least warned them ahead of time. There are ways they could have handled this without playing games with people's livelihoods.
If they'd waited a few months to see if more eco-friendly alternatives showed up, or to make sure it wasn't a bubble, I think this would have been different. But nobody interested in NFTs is doing that because even if they sincerely hope this is sustainable, they all kind of instinctively get that the point is to be fast on the trigger. That's the whole weird identity and pride surrounding crypto and similar new tech--they want to be visionaries who were rewarded for seeing the future. When it doesn't pan out or they lose a lot, they have to stick with it or give up that pride and buoyant, optimistic, exciting community. Setbacks are growing pains, and the future just isn't here yet. Just one big break and we'll all be swimming in champagne.
I want to support the PAs, but I'm concerned by what Daz might think the future is and what their leadership's attitude might be toward emerging tech. Confession: I actually love the idea of virtual influencers, or at least digital identities. I want to make an avatar I can use to interact with other people online, where I can be a robot or an alien or have a TV for a head or whatever. But then I go and look that up and it's stuff like this. Just a thousand-yard stare into a perpetual future where the present is always disposable. Already fully buttoned up as a cutting-edge SEO-optimized marketing field, run by 50-year-old dudes who were born at the director level, all with a coat of Gen Z-friendly paint.
Coming back to this thread probably isn't productive for me, but I'm just sad. The people who use Daz are generally so down to earth and just doing what they love. I'm really tired of bracing for every company I depend on suddenly turning their customers into a springboard for the next hustle, and I've been having so much fun that I forgot to.
Sure, but I would like entities with life-changing power and money to proactively consider the impact of their choices so people don't have to do this constantly.
For PA's, Daz is providing a very convenient way to sell their art. But Daz is also relying on the PA's. Without PA's there is nothing to sell. Without customers, there is no way for a PA to get her/his stuff sold. If Daz is upsetting both parties, they are out of business in no time. I hope they do start listening. I have a couple of PA's that I absolutely do want to support.
There's no reason they can't do all of those things at once, to varying extents. After all, if we make NFTs we'll have to do something with our crypto-currency, "encouraging" us to funnel it into the existing NFT market. Seems like the Diigitals is hyping up Daz3D on his Instagram, while Daz is trying to pitch NFTs to us directly. A multi-pronged approach.
I really hope there are some big PAs against this garbage. :/
And that upload of the image would be subject to DMCA, unless the artist had given the purchaser the right to upload for viewing by others.
Ditto. I looked all through my account and can't find a way to subscribe just to the newsletters that I want so no more newsletters for me. In fact, I can't find a way to subscribe to DAZ newsletters at all, so even if they stop spamming people with NFT drek, I can't re-subscribe in the future. Their FAQ tells how to unsubscribe to the newsletter, but not how to subscribe. I think that might need to be fixed, along with the fact that the Help area doesn't have a direct link back to DAZ.
Yeah, this is a short-sighted bandwagon-jumping idea that will not end well, unless you luck out with a bored person with too much money and not enough wisdom to have it! All I know is the disappointment in not being able to buy/use the incredibly unique 3D models, yet instead only be allowed to pay well over $500 dollars for a bleedin' gif of the Covergirl, which is a pretty idiotic purchase as it can be easily duplicated, unless there's some hidden code in the gif itself!
EDIT: Just saw this crap in the storefront, they can't even make an Asian look like a REAL Asian...
The GIF format specification is very old and therefore has quite some restrictions. It does not allow to embed any code to be executed while the GIF is displayed or an animation is run. While you can - theoretically - embed code in an image (steganography), you need the unchanged image to filter out that code again. And you would require some display engine, e.g. the layout enigne in your web browser, to execute that code.
So, it is de facto a plain GIF, and nothing else.
The really scary thing about this is that it could/will end up being yet another system that sets up all but the 1% to fail. Those who already have the money and power and privelage will continue to run everything while everybody else is left in the dirt and holding the bag. The only difference is that, as you've said, they have a coat of friendly paint to hide behind.
Morph3D was spun off of Daz3D to provide Unity assets of Daz content. You could buy Genesis 3 (I think it was) figures and outfits fully rigged for Unity with morphs and such. Unfortunately for those of us that bought some, they no longer work.
Doesn't seem to be a problem with NFT's, as there are several NFT's for Hermione Granger, at least one for Mona Lisa, and these were just some of which caught my eye when browsing through the auction site.
Somehow I started wondering if whoever made the desicion for DAZ to start promoting NFT's with such enthusiasm, really understood what the NFT's actually were,,,
That is the thing. Sister company means is not actually Daz as much as they share same ceo/directors. Lower scale but similar to Whatsapp, instagram, facebook...sharing data between them required change in their eula/privacy policies.
So last night they used a DAZ mail service and template but the promo has nothing to do with DAZ, it says Tafi all over the place and links go directly to OpenSea. I don't remember giving permission to share my email. And before Mr Snarky says that they didn't actually share the mail, i also don't remember subscribing to a Open to everyone Ad Network Proxy that has nothing to do with the 3D models sold at the site.
Think of it this way. My understanding is that the gallery allow daz to use the the images in site promos. Now think that Daz gets another sister company but this one is something you don't like or want your Art related to. After what they did last night with your mail, what is stopping them to use your Art on whatever they want that is not even related to the Daz3D?
A DMCA still has to be filed, by the rights owner or their agent. And the Mona Lisa itself is long out of copyright (if it was ever actually in), though specific photos may well be protected.