...that is bothering people. Most everyone does understand that. It's the warning and the tone of the message. True, the 'sity has every right to give a warning. The owners have a right to ban everyone except little purple people who paint with thier privy parts if they want too. It's the whole tone of how it's being done. If you decide to activly enforce something that you haven't enforced before, a public notice and reminder would have been nice. Then while you're going through on a first time basis, delete, send a message, and say that the warning has been waved, but please don't upload copyrighted material again. Yes, I know you can always do the personal touch with Spike to get the warning removed, but all you're doing is increasing his workload and p*ssing people off who helped build the site up in the first place. Warnings should be for uploads after a published warning date, or after a reasonable period of time after the date for older items so the freestuff provider can either change his freebie to comply, or remove it. Everyone appreciates the hard work Karen is doing. But come on, you catch more flys with honey than with vinigar. Obviously the 'sity is clamping down in a number of areas. Paypal censorship issues, copyright issues, etc. The 'sity has every right to do this. But if you announce, set a timeline, and issue a few reminders as deadlines approach, there will be a much lower roar and more acceptance. Are things like this in the newsletter at all? They should be. Question though. Usually when a company does a major tightening of the rules, it's for specific economic reasons. Either someone has made threats and you're responding, or you're getting ready to sell the business and want to clean it up to remove dispute areas before the sale. Is the 'sity on the block?