You know what? Gabe and I have never been friends, but make NO mistake. He is the victim in this situation. And I'm not even going to waste my breath (or my keyboard) on the idiotic notion that he orchestrated any of this for publicity he doesn't even need.

The Umutov I know is the same one KymJ posted about. All he ever talked about was who was being unfair to him, who was standing in the way of him being in the top 30, and how many products were inferior to his work. Oh wait, maybe I should say the work he ripped off.

As far as "only one voice" being valid for copyright complaint, I totally disagree. Let me give you an example. Say frednewmerchant posts a set of tiling textures for sale. Along comes Bonni, who sees that the textures were all copied pixel for pixel straight out of Activision's Trading Spaces Design Companion. Do we let her report it and handle it internally? Or do we get the copyright holders involved? Suddenly we're talking about a major software company and a major cable network (The Learning Channel). They might not play as nice as Gabe has, or as DAZ does. They've got no reason to care whether Renderosity stays in business or not. Before you laugh, I reported a newbie merchant here last year for a very similar violation. It was handled quietly and internally, and AFAIK the merchant is still selling here. Maybe you've bought some of his/her products. :-)

One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. -River Tam