kazy
April 14, 2023, 10:12pm
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Orange_Comfort:
Please, please, make avatar theft protection a number 1 priority. I cannot imagine anything else being more important than protecting the works of the community.
It’s extremely hard to prevent ripping at the source. They’re doing what they can, but as long as your GPU can render an avatar, it can be ripped. It’s just the way graphics and computers work.
Tupper from the Developer Update - 1 December 2022 :
We have been doing a lot of things to reduce ripping. We can’t tell you about almost any of them.
Ripping will never fully go away , but we’ve taken many measures to reduce it significantly. Since late July, we’ve seen a MASSIVE reduction in asset ripping.
I must reiterate that it is still possible (it always will be), but the incidence rate is way, way lower.
Although VRChat has grown, we’re certainly not AAA-sized. Massive global companies have tried to stop asset ripping, but nobody has succeeded. Pragmatically: we’re probably not going to make a breakthrough here!
We can continue to make it a pain in the ass, though.
Importantly: it can be hard to talk about what we do to stop ripping. Showing our hand can make it easier for bad actors to work around our mitigations.
Unfortunately, I have to say things like “dude, trust me” when I say we’re working to improve it.