I think having the galleries public might actually discourage thieves. The unscrupulous who find this site think they've discovered a goldmine: tons of free images that are unknown to most of the public, and can't be found via a casual Google. The solution to piracy isn't to keep your art from view. It's to make it more public, so any theft is more quickly discovered. To me, art is meant to be seen. By the unwashed masses, not just the elite. It's expecting too much of non-artists, to make them jump through hoops to look at an image. I suspect many of Rosity's artists got interested in Poser, Photoshop, etc., just because of one image they saw while they were casually surfing the net. I did. If you never show your art to anyone, no one will ever steal it. But then, what's the point of doing it? As for the bandwidth issue...obviously, that's a problem. But other sites have found ways to deal with it. The free webhosters (Geocities, Fortune City, etc.) must have just as much traffic as Rosity does. They handle it by blocking remote linking and mass downloading. I don't know how they do it, but they do, so it must be possible.