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After the recent survey, I don't think this community wants protection for the galleries. What many members want is protection for their own graphics but the ability to freely download everyone else's, under the theory that they should never have to ask anyone's permission if they are just downloading onto their own hard drive to do what they want with the graphics in their spare time. Why do they find it so hard to ask permission when that's what so many of the artists are complaining about in the first place? It strikes me as hypocrisy. I tend to judge people by how they act and not what they say...and, in this case, the actions tell me a lot. I know one thing...I'll ignore any further complaints about graphic theft from now on. Obivously, a great many people want one set of rules for themselves and different set for other people. So be it. But don't complain about Renderosity not doing anything. There is nothing they could do that would accomodate the wants of what is considered a priviledged class of downloaders that would exclude what has been called theives but are, in reality, just more of the same. Don't email that I've misunderstood. I've gotten that email. I understand all too well. I've seen hypocrites before...they all sing the same song, and it's always offkey.