Have to agree with lemur01. The original proposal was so misguided in its effort to police trademark/copyright infringment (ie, the fact that Renderosity has no direct control of the content of the freestuff servers means they have no direct control over such trademark/copyright infringement -- plus, Renderosity has no legal obligation to police the content of 3rd party sites), that I suspect the original motivation was from too many Rendo vendors who felt that freestuff authors were "encroaching" upon the vendors' turf, and shouldn't have the "advantage" of being able to announce freebies in any forum. I suspect the vendors probably complained and said "Hey, look at these freestuff authors giving away stuff that may compete with our commercial offerings. And they've got the advantage of announcing their stuff in any forum, whereas we've been restricted to this Product Showcase forum. At the very least, you should restrict their announcements to a particular forum too. And how about if you limit them to talking about only freestuff on Rendo's server? That way, we can eliminate competition from lots of those freestuff authors because most of them use 3rd party servers".

Out of all the stated reasoning so far, this is the only one that makes plausible sense to me, in that it explains why the security loopholes, and legal irrelevancies, went unquestioned/unanswered (and apparently still do so) in the new policy.

But the bottom line is that Rendo is a business. And you have to expect a business to place priority first upon making money. That's how it works. So really, no one should be surprised or upset when policies favor the business. If you want something beyond business (ie, community, sharing, freedom, and all that "intrinsic stuff"), they you MUST obtain it from a non-commercial source. I'm not saying that all business is evil. I'm just saying that all business is about making money.