First of all, I have been gone on a family emergency.

Funny I hadn't realized we were a competitive site, anymore than morphworld, or DAZ. We allow many many people who can not direct link to host their files on our server, but when they all linked directly to the files the bandwidth was out of control, the solution was to allow them to link to their own pages.

If we are to take this personally then we in return would stop linking all of the links we have to rendersosity. We link from our magazine to the renderosity store and gallery on a regular basis. We don't consider it linking to the competition but rather an expansion of a fantastic and giving community.

Our product reviews of products in the 'rosity marketplace link directly to your product pages. It would seem that while we have an open mind the admins here do not.

Nowhere in the upload page for the freebies or the original notice of ability to link to html pages did it ever state that there were restrictions of this kind.

I guess that since I link to my personal site for my downloads and I sell items through that site that I will need to remove all of those free things as well as that is apparantly a competitive site.

I am not however so small minded that I will remove all links to Renderosity. Funny DAZ links to us from their product pages to our reviews and doesn't consider us competition at all (how could we be?

When nikita and I started 3-D aRena it was specifically with the artist in mind, not profit. We take very low percentages from the sales and the sales are really only there to help support the site. We offered free web sites, downloads and the magazine. We Hosted the files so that those who couldn't offer their items here would have a place to offer their downloads. It was never our intent to compete with 'rosity or any other site, only to be fair to artists and give them options they couldn't get elsewhere.

I suppose I should feel flattered that we are considered competition, but instead I am simply saddened and upset for those we do host that there is now a line drawn in the sand. I hope that many will realize that WE never drew that line and have always included renderosity links in our site, more than likely helping sales of those items and therefore increasing the profits of 'rosity itself.

LSM

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