

When you steal from them, you are stealing from their ability to provide for themselves and their families. The creators who create content for those sites (3D modeling sites, IMVU, SL) often require selling those meshes to either greatly supplement or provide the entirety of their income. This not only can cause the creators of those meshes to DMCA you or potentially sue you for damages but if those companies find out you violated their policies they will not hesitate to ban you from their services. It is violating the copyright of IMVU and SecondLife if you use an illegal copybot account to rip meshes from their site and then redistribute them for the sims 4. Here's a cliff notes version that won't involve me lecturing. So I wanted to make a kinda "end-all-be-all" post containing info about the legality of conversions, ripping meshes, and those things as they pertain to different sources of content, and what implications this means for sims 4 creators.
