I've only posted one thing to freestuff. A set of elf ear morphs. But in understanding that people will spread it if they like it I stated in my readme that I as long as I got a mention for making it it could be put anywhere or sent anywhere people desired. The real reason I did that is that I didn't ever want to be in Hokusai's postion of having a lot of good work out there that noone can ever get cause I'd lost my sites. The way I see it is once you give away something for free it's unrealistic to be able to expect to be get paid for it later. So plan from day one of a freebie to just let it go where it can. If you ever desire otherwise then on day one charge for it. It's unethical to steal work of course. But I don't see what Maier did as that. I think he just assumed we were more of a community than we seem to be turning out to be. It only seems to make sense to compile similar items together. I'm planning to group all of my own list of downloaded poses together into logical catagories. From there it only seemed to make sense to share what you'd done with the others in the community. Since it's the same community that made the stuff. It's sort of like saying "gee thanks for giving me all of this cool stuff; I sat down for a few days and catagorized it; here's a copy back for you of everything put together in catagories; as a thank you." If people would stop being paranoid about theft they'd realize that in many ways what he did is a service for the community. The failure to include credits is the only flaw I can find in the whole issue. And given the horrid way people name their readme files this doesn't suprise me. It's not like he was trying to sell the community's work for his own gain. He was organizing the community's work and then sending it right back to the community. I believe that less than a month ago there were people seriously talking about doing just exactly what he did and then selling it in the store to raise funds for the site... Remember all those 'best of renderosity' topics? ...

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