well... for once in my verbose life I am at a loss for words... (don't worry though, I always think of some!) Helen your poem is beautiful. Don't think me toooo cheesy here, but I actually think I'm going to cry! Isaac's image is just outstanding. To everyone else who has replied here, all I can say is a very, very humble thanks for your thoughts and for this overwhelming show of support. It was not a decision I made quickly, or at the spur of the moment, or in reaction to any single forum thread or post. Quite honestly I had been considering it for some time now. in the however many years since I first opened ThorneWorks, I have had many, many more letters of thanks and support than I have criticisms or flames. In fact, as relates to this very issue of screaming "FIRE!" (child-porn) in a crowded theatre (Renderosity, and the internet at large), I have received exactly ONE complaint in my email- in the form of some misguided soul in France asking me "how old" one of my models was. ...Oh, I don't know, a month or two I suppose since she came into the world.... As my english itself is atrocious, and I was BORN here, I would NEVER make fun of anyone else's brave attempts at it, but we obviously had a language barrier there. So I forwarded his letter on to my friend Vincent in Belgium, who could set him straight in his own language. ;o) ah... good times. In my time online (NOT a Johnny Cash song), I have also been ripped-off, free-drived, hacked unsuccessfully, accidentally deleted, and caught in the middle of some hellacious forum politics with flame bullets flying fast and furious. I have somehow, with the support of my very dear friends, been able to survive all that, which without them, I most assuredly would NOT have survived. I put one helluva lot of work into the models I create. That's prolly 'cause I'm very slow and deliberate- these things just can't be rushed. But when I see that hard work attacked as being some despicable thing that, before coming online, I would never even have DREAMED it to be associated with, and then I myself being placed right alongside with that association as though I WAS or even COULD BE responsible for the sick minds of a very few others... "I'm taking Ford Motors to court because my kid got run over by a crazed drunken driver in a Ford..." Well, that was about the ol' proverbial straw that broke it. The ridiculousness of it is only surpassed by the fact that anyone would even fall for it. You guys are so great and you are making this very difficult to do... I'm not chickening out of a fight; I've fought this one. So then please consider this a time-out to regroup and consider options, of which there ARE some... even I am not always sure what those mischievous faeries over at my place might have up their little faerie sleeves for the future. Thorne, down but not OUT (big tongue out at you perverts! :oP) P.S. (Did I mention, you guys are GREAT! Thank you, deeply.)