cruzin opened this issue on Feb 14, 2007 · 47 posts
Doran posted Thu, 15 February 2007 at 2:27 PM
This is a blanket response intended to cover the entire “nudity vs. censorship” issue and is not directed at any one person. This is also the last time I will be posting about this issue that should have died long ago. It’s so depressing to see what little knowledge people have concerning the differences between constitutional rights and business law. Though this post might not seem to respond directly to this thread, I believe this thread, which relates to a “pay-per-view workaround” so as to permit a more accepting attitude toward adult content is simply just another “Renderosity =Censorship” thread or will, most likely turn into one. Therefore, the following anticipatory statements DO directly apply.
Just upload to Renderotica. This place IS a business, ya know? It belongs to Bondware. It's not “a site for the artists, by the artists". You get free space for a single upload per day. Just be glad there is a place where you can post your work. BTW there is quite a lot of garbage "nudity" that passes under the radar just because of the word ART. That whole "one mans Picasso is another’s Leroy Neiman" doesn't play well when you're looking at an adolescent depiction of sex and nudity, like the sort of thing that might be scribbled on a freshman’s notebook. If you transplant thumbs to your feet, that still won't make you an ape therefore, if you create a picture of naked females that doesn’t automatically make it art.
And before anyone says "who are you to judge what is or isn't art" I say that I am an artist and a viewer of art, thus giving me the right to judge. The simple fact that you upload a picture to this site, of which I am a member, translates to you giving me the right to judge your work and when I peruse the pinup galleries I can safely say that there is a good amount of juvenile garbage there. Does that give me the right to call for it to be removed? No. I’m not the owner. BUT, if the Bondware people are sick of it... you know, the people who own this site, then they have all the right and authority to judge what is garbage, what isn't garbage and remove accordingly, any and all offending works. Your picture, their site, case closed (you’d think).
I don’t work here but you don’t have to in order to understand the simple fact that Renderosity is NOT the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and this site reserves the right to exercise any and all rules and ordinances allowed by law to effectively deliver a web based product of a particular content and quality expected by its owners as pursuant to their wishes. You don’t have the right to post whatever you want here as if R’osity is obligated to adhere to your every whim. If you think you have such an absolute right to do so then run down to the local Museum and start taping up gonzo porn to their walls, and we’ll see how far your censorship argument makes it with the local police department.
The owners have a right, under law to regulate the content here whether it is the entire picture or its corresponding thumbnail image. This is the wish of the owners and the staff. Since that authority doesn't translate to you, just post to Renderotica and quit whining. You’re NOT going to get your way. As far as the private gallery issue, why should they do so when Renderotica is free and just a click away?