Quote - > Quote - It does cost something to make products.

Yep. Time ;)

Laurie

 

Let us not forget the investment in Software that is used in the actual creation of content. That's not always free either.

 

Quote -  Don't know if I can quite go along with that. No one works for pay 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and unless they quit their full time job to work on 3D stuff, then I just don't think it counts.  It's stuff they would be doing anyway, most likely as a part of their hobby.

Doesn't matter if you choose to go along with it or not. Time spent is money lost. You can't justify that by saying it's just a hobby to the vendor. They spent money on the software they used to create the product and then spent time on creation, testing and packaging. That is worth something whether "You" go along with it or not. That's just the sort of attitude that soured me on being a merchant.