all right, well let me start by saying i'm not whinning about any thing, just throwing in my two cents... or should I conform to your thoughts and beliefs and throw them aside as if I were your mindless slave. Also, i'm not "whinning" about the license, i'm "whining" about the merchants confronting individuals about it... now I could get into the whole privacy issue but I feel them having a record of who bought what is more like a store keeping receipts so I don't have a quarrel with that, but at the same time, not every holds on to one specific sign in name either, and further more I don't really mind that the merchant is curious or what have you simply because I can understand where they're coming from simply because I know if i spent all day to make a beautiful texture, a prop or anything of that sort, I wouldn't be too happy with knowing that I was being ripped off either. But I think by confronting people with the situation is just going to make things worse, especially if the other person 1. Didn't know that excepting the gift was wrong or 2.They purchased the product under a different Sign In name because as I said, that makes the merchant look greedy and the consumer feel un comfortable which will inevitably lead to the consumer no longer funding the merchant by purchasing their work. As for myself, I don't buy anything simply because I feel that I would be wasting alot of money just to use it for one image and then simply toss the product aside, especially since I can't send the shit that I no longer use, to a friend so that I can clear some space on my Hard Drive without wasting that 20 bucks that I could have spent on something I needed. My intentions were nothing more than put my two cents in on what's going on... But hey, if you would prefer to throw a fit over a few people using their gifts to create spectacular images just because somebody didn't feel like wasting 20 dollars, so that you can lose the majority of you customers... then I say go for it. I've personally got nothing against the merchants. I can understand and appreciate exactly where they're coming from, and to be quite honest, i hope they never quit doing what they do, because they're work is absolutley amazing and in my eyes worth every penny when it's being used. But if this were to become a huge issue such as the KaZaA and RIAA has.. then all of the artist that put out those brilliant peices of work will be forced to quit because they feel that distributing their products is a waste of time since they're not getting any profit. But I also don't see any reason to spend money on something we're just going to throw away. Everything becomes outdated eventually.