Distributing OBJ files without encoding them is a violation of Daz EULA, the Renderosity TOS per add-on for free stuff. it's warez pure and simple. OBJ file is simply source code of the model, distribution of that is illegal unless the downloader has bought the obj file and it's varifyed (re encoded freebie). The person distributing the freebie is in volation, as are the downloaders, even if the downloaders have no idea they are in possesion of stolen items. Renderosity can be held acountable (must as Napster was) for providing the means for the illegal transaction to happen. Anybody that makes items be it for purchase or as freebies needs to police their items, as well as the site "sponsoring" those items. Anton is policeing his items, I'm suprised that more content creators have not chimed in on this thread saying ME TOO! Maybe they don't care, maybe they don't know. However Anton is not the only content creator being violated, there are several images in freebie that have been grabbed from product pages, items that are 'similar' to marketted items, as anton has pointed out several times. With the amount of money that is being lost, the number of members of renderosity downloading these items (6k! wow), even at a dollar a pop your talkin about grand theft, felony copyright violations. serious stuff. needs to be addressed as serious stuff and not as one content creator moaning about his losses of sales. At 6k of downloads thats MONTHS of rent money that could have been gotten through sales. it's serious, and I don't think anybody should take it so lightly as to brush it off as a content creator moaning. As far as keeping information private, if action has been taken and a viloation has happened, then that information NEEDS to be shared. 6 thousand people have an illegal item on their hard drives and may not know. How this is addressed I don't know, it's not my JOB to know, it's renderosity's job, and it has to be let known when an illegal action has taken place as to inform the renderosity members. I now have to go through 6 CDs and verify and delete items that may be a violation and get me in trouble if I use them. I'm hurt as a member here because my time is lost. I'm glad that Anton has brought it up, I'm glad that Renderosity is trying to do something about it, more on the issue needs to be done. my 2 cents, and it was hard getting them.