How to protect models from stealing?

That's reality of digital content. It can be copied and multiplied very easily and there's practically no way to prevent that. On the other hand, those who are buying the models, usually don't look for pirated models and those who are downloading illegal assets, usually don't shop for models at all. So when you mode is pirated, it does not affect sales very much. I would suggest to look at it slightly philosophical :]

Quote - "I think that the best option how to protect own work is selling for reasonable prices.
Lower price of product means higher possibility of misuse by unserious buyer.
In most cases pirate users will not buy expensive products to resell them illegally."

I don't think that price has anything to do with the probability of model being pirated. If that would be the case, then warez sites wiould be full of cheap models and not expensive cars from hamsters and squirrels. In fact, if you want to lower the chance of your models being leaked, then make crappy, worthless models and you'll be relatively safe :]

People often think, that pirates buy the model and then shares them on warez sites, but i think this is not how this works. Most likely majority of pirated models comes when various companies buy them for legal usage in archviz, gamedev, promo, etc. and then their immoral employees leaks those models, because they didn't pay their own money and they don't feel responsible.

Hi,
The only way to protect your models is to not upload them to the internet. Once your model is downloaded by someone else, you have absolutely no control over how it will be used.

You can buy a protection spell from the local spellcaster.

I think that the best option how to protect own work is selling for reasonable prices.
Lower price of product means higher possibility of misuse by unserious buyer.
In most cases pirate users will not buy expensive products to resell them illegally.

And it is the reason (protection of my hard work) why I will probably not set the 70% discount for Black friday period. )))

Trying to find authorship of "zbrushy scam" is meaningless. All this beautifully looking on renders, but cheap looking after casting and finishing models are on internet many years. And always on the top (because of sweet look on the rendered pictures). And technically saying about this pendant: if it is not assembly - it don't worth even a dime. And even it made as assembly, no images about it provided. Skull must be hollow... etc etc etc... The last picture contains evidence of how model is really bad. And not checked "intersecting triangles" options says about it. It's just crap for teenagers.

So it looks like everybody who is active in these forums today talking about these jewelry things.
So I have a theory in mind which clearly shows that CGTrader may not support these "jewelry studios" but they clearly don't punish them for stealing models, manipulate PublishingScore, etc.

I did write this theory in another forum but here it is again:
I could imagine that it is accepted from CGT because of one simple reason: CGT promotes itself as the biggest 3D Model Website in the World. To be the biggest Website you have to have the biggest amount of 3D Models. And who are the guys who uploaded the most models? You are right these incredible diligent "studios" which uploads thousands of models every month.

So far so good, but is there any evidence to that?
I think it is, and it lies in the analytics:

In the analytics which is provided by CGT itself, you can filter for the Category whit the most Models, so I did:
1. jewelry 45012
2. gold 42798
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3. furniture 34768
4. interior 31934
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5 diamond 27353
6 jewel 26501
7 jewellery 26120
8. wedding 23440
9. ring 23305
10. gem 19089

and then the other categories like character, fashion modern, and so on appear.
But you can clearly see the ridiculous amount of a minimum of45000 jewelry models with which these "jewelry studios" inundate CGTrader.

But I can hear you, "THAT is no evidence, there could be way more jewelry designers out there and you just focusing on these studios because they are the #1 in uploading models", and yes that could be the case.
But now think about that:
If they upload this impressive amount of jewelry models to get money they would benefit of upload these models on other sides as well and guess what i did, right i just looked at some of these other sides outside:
Turbosquid: 8648 jewelry Models.
3D-Export: 7777 jewelry Models.
And of course the "best performing artists" on cgtrader could be on the other sides as well but if they have these models already uploaded on CGT they would probably use the same description fo these models, because, let's be honest they don't really write detailed descriptions for there model :
The best selling Ring of michaeldogary-1:
"fixed with magic Experimented with the machine printable"

If you search for these descriptions on google or other searching websites you found nothing, just cgtrader models.

Just curious...

I agree that there is no need to distribute models online.That they would not resold

What I firmly believe is that, they bought the model, so it belongs to them. Therefore the person can choose to do anything with it.
For instance, you go to the market, you buy shoes, and the person you bought the shoes from tells you that you shouldn't sell it. You would be like, bruv, but it's my money, I bought it, I own it now.

That's my idea and I stand to be corrected.