Quote - one word-- PAYPAL

Huh?

What does PayPal have to do with Renderosity "censoring" thumbnail images?
First, as it's been stated so often, this is Renderosity's site and they can set any rules that they feel like. If they don't want nudity in the thumbnails, then so be it: either follow their rules or don't post.

Second, PayPal has nothing to do with the policies in Renderosity's galleries. The rumor is that Renderosity changed the policies of the marketplace so no nudity was shown in the thumbnail or first sales image.
Why would PayPal care about nudity in an image gallery? I'm sure there are plenty of sites (both artistic and adult) which contain nudity... yet PayPal processes payments for those sites.

And why is the "poor man's copyright" myth still going around in 2008?
From Snopes, the Urban Legends Reference Pages:
"Mailing one's works to oneself and keeping the unopened, postmarked envelope as proof of right of ownership to them (a practice known as the "poor man's copyright") has no substantive legal effect in the U.S. [The site has] yet to locate a case of its use where an author's copyright was established and successfully defended in a court of law by this method."

Their page is dated 9 August 2005, so this issue was debunked by them almost three years ago.

From the US Copyright Office. (It can't get more official than this!)
"The practice of sending a copy of your own work to yourself is sometimes called a “poor man’s copyright.” There is no provision in the copyright law regarding any such type of protection, and it is not a substitute for registration."

And these are just 2 examples I found in a few minutes of searching. Imagine what can be found if someone uses Google instead of blindly accepting "urban legends"! ;)

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