shadowcat opened this issue on Apr 19, 2001 ยท 15 posts
casamerica posted Thu, 19 April 2001 at 4:07 AM
Shadowcat, I think you will eventually see most of the free sites that carry their download library on their own server either require the files be placed on the author's own site, such as they do here on Renderosity, or you will see them close. They will have no choice. Greed and selfishness are two of mankind's greatest contributions to Creation. And our greed and selfishness comes not from instinct, but from a conscious decision. I think the raping of places like Poserworld and the Props Guild by the mass downloaders and the recent revelations of the prevalence of warez within the Poser community confirms that quite well. The people at Poserworld, the Props Guild, 3d Model World and others have asked and pleaded for people not to use programs that strip sites. Their pleas and requests were ignored. After all their requests, after all their pleas you are still going to have people say that the mass downloaders are not the problem, that they share no blame and that it is somehow, someway the site owners' fault. Go figure. Frankly, I wouldn't blame PoserWorld, the Props Guild and the others if they told us all to go to hell.