Attached Link: http://www.3dmodelworld.com/zips/poser3/davidhoward/newGillian.zip

Hostile, the link did it to me as well

Attached Link: http://3dmodelworld.com/download.asp?pos3dhnewGillian

heyas; whatever it's doing, it's probably doing it from some bandwidth-protecting scheme at 3d model world. go to 3d modelworld and download it from there, but don't try to remote link to the zip file.

I'm sure it is a remote linking situation. I don't blame Lannie for prohibiting remote linking - too many people abuse it, and use 3Dmodelworld's bandwidth for their own purposes. Its funny, but I see a lot of posts on this board about respecting copyrights (and I agree) but some of the very same people also have no qualms about remote linking from their own site to someone else's files, and basically stealing the bandwidth that someone else is paying for.. Seems a little hypocritical. I'm not talking about Renderosity, of course, they have the owner's permission to remote link - I'm talking about the people with private websites which link to files on other sites without the knowledge and permission of the owner. Its too bad that the visitor to such sites rarely knows that this is happening because when you link to a zip file it doesn't display a new html page with a fully visible location bar, it just truncates (obscuring) the actual address of the file in the download dialog box. Oh well... maybe we can raise some awareness on the issue by discussing it.

I, personally, never go to Lannie's site, due to the overkill on cookies, banners and pop-up(and under) windows. BUT, I agree 100% on Lannie's attitude to remote linking and bandwidth abuse. If the siteowner wants to supply online services to the public and prohibits remote direct linking access, then this should be respected and NOT abused.