"But-when you click on a link that DOES "NOT" SAY "SITE LINK" or "REGISTRATION REQUIRED" - you get peeved a little, because your expecting to get your SH**& and go - not get the run around treatment." Maybe it's just me, but if I upload a freebie, even if I were to have it on an outside site that required registration, I don't add that to the title. The title is the name for the object, and that's it for me. I will, however, add "Offsite registration" to the "Notes and Requirements" section though. Seems like it fits there better than in the tittle. "You can have your freebies up on your site and advertise your pay stuff to - without fishing for email addys to inundate boxes with spam or to sell email addies to other companies - that again - inundate boxes with SPAMOLA!!!" I'm sure there are exceptions (there always are) but it seems to me with the recent crack down on spam and it being illegal and all to mass send, Poser authors have better things to do than to send spam out to the 700 or so people they have registered at their site. From what I understand, you have to go through quite a bit to make yourself somewhat untraceable if you're going to be mass spaming. That's a lot to go through, with a pretty big risk to yourself. I believe it's safe to say that you won't be getting much spam from registering at the average hobbyist's website. "If I go to your site for a free download - you don't have to have me to freaking register in order to get me to either buy your pay stuff - or donate to your hosting expenses.It's NOT necessary!!!" For some author's, it's just easier on them. It depends on the setup they have. If they're using a pre-built CMS ( content management system ), then they may not have a setting to allow downloads without registration. Or they may want to have the ability to send out an e-mail to all those who downloaded their freebie to let them know they've updated it. Just because you have to register at a website doesn't mean they're instantly wanting you to buy something. Another huge factor with registering to download is that it stops leeching. If you have to register at a website, it's probably using a CMS or some homebrew php code that only allows downloads to those that are registered. If you're not a member, you don't get it. That means others can't link to it, because it will take them right back to the site it came from and tell them that they're not a member. Not everyone can afford bandwidth to host a 5 meg freebie for Renderosity and every other website some Joe decides to link it to. Like I said, just because I give something away for free doesn't mean that It's free for me. If I take the time to make something for the community, and if I so wish it, I see no problem with making those who want it register for it. I'm not going to open myself up to bandwidth theft. Thanks kids - I call that little ditty....Reality.