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A reasonable guess, Alexcoppo, but most of these really are free models.

I participate in the archivenet when possible, and contribute models there. Almost all the other contributors there are people known to me in the architecture business. To my knowledge, about 90-percent of the models really are freebies. About 10-percent or maybe less of them are stolen, as you correctly say. These latter were contributed by Chinese architects, who probably are not always aware of what is stolen and what is not. In China, many, many MAX models and texture files are circulating freely in the architecture community without their provenance being well understood. Sometimes, some of those end up here.

By the way, a tremendous share of the stolen models available on Chinese architectural web sites are from various Dosch model and texture collections. So, if you are in doubt as to whether you should download something from Archivenet that you like, you might want to first check against the inventory of Dosch models. Then, if you don't see a correspondence, it's probably safe to help yourself to what you see. If you do find a correspondence - that is, you see a Dosch model on Archivenet, you might want to drop Dosch a quick e-mail, so that he can have the model in question removed.

What Alexcoppo says about the low quality of free models is generally true. However, some of us do try to make high quality freebies available when we can. Most of us model-builders can easily remember when we did not know how to model and were dependent on the good grace of others. So, we try to repay those earlier efforts, in kind. I don't place my freebies here, because Rendo lacks the server space to host such things. But, as almost everyone here knows, you can find my contributions at C3D.  I'm glad for this thread, because it reminds me that I need to make more for the general community. I needed this kick-in-the-pants reminder - so "Thanks" for that -LOL!