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What is your opinion of the list?
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My opinion is articulated and I will try to summarize it in points:

1. My opinion on the whole puritan trend is "3S" that it is sad, sick, and silly.

• Sad, because it is sad to see the distorted vision of morals and ethics that the public opinion of the world's current leader nation's is more and more obviously having. And for us not living in the USA, the fear is that this wave of puritanism may come to us somehow soon, because the USA culture is much influential over most of the world today. So, big fear.
• Sick, because in my opinion, unless there is an explicit sexual or porn reference in images, it is just simply sick to see immorality in a nude image. The sickness is not in the art of the artist, it is in the eye of the censor. Which is to say that the censors ban whatever they recognize as sick in their own sick minds.
• Silly, because to see any age truth in cartoon figures such as Laroo or the Girl, can not be regarded in any other way than silly. And judging age by breast size is also silly: Today I had New Year's lunch with a grand-aunt of mine who is 80 years old and has (and always had) barely the breast size of a skinny 14er. And on the other hand, I remember one summer holiday in 1979 when a girl in our group had two big boobs every one of us males were fantasizing about - and she was 15.

2. I think that blaming this on Renderosity is short-sighted. I am sure that Renderosity does not want to censor, they only want to make better business and they follow the main stream trend because it is obviously more productive. The main trend of morals in the USA do not depend, nor is determined by, Renderosity's choices. So if you hav eto blame this on someone, blame it on the current powers-that-be and on those who voted them in the elections. And try to remember this when you will go to vote for the next elections.
   From the profit point of view, it is obviously more lucrative to lose the sales of two open-minded artists than to lose the sales of twenty narrow-minded barbiedolls handlers. This must be a fact otherwise I am sure that Renderosity admins would not have set such restrictive rules.

3. In all cases, Renderosity is a private venture, they can set any rules they want and no one merchant is obliged to like their rules, i.e. if we don't like the rules we are obviously free to go selling somewhere else.

4. I am afraid that these rules will damage some texture artists much. Warezing the poser products is a long time problem and this is going to make it worse, because getting a warezed copy of a texture will be the only way to properly and thoroughly check a texture set before purchase. More and more people will end up getting a warez copy to see what a texture really looks like, and once they have it, not all of them will have the honesty to get back to the store and buy what they already have on their hard disks.
   Also, we will get more and more after-sale returns and chargebacks, because the new rules will in a way entitle people to claim back their money since they had to "buy blind" important parts of the products. And I am afraid that more and more people will use this as a strategy to get the goods for nothing (because again, once it's on their harddisks, whoever grants us merchants that they will delete them after return?). A strategy that may prove useful for those items they could not momentarily get from warez sources.

Message edited on: 01/01/2006 19:29