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Greybro, as long as the files link directly to the pages there shouldn't be a problem, but in the case of 3-D Arena the artists were linking to their very own FREE STUFF in the free section of the site, I host those files for the artists and had to stop allowing direct linking because it was costing me hundreds of dollars in bandwidth. So the solution seemed simple, they could link to a page that had only their freestuff, no need to access the front page at all.

TPB at 'rosity here decided that we were competition and asked one artist to remove the links and others did so as well when that occured and it was in the forums, before the admins asked as they actually just told the artist it would be deleted.

So when you open a store you will be considered competition and asked to remove the direct linking. I never did get an answer though to my question of what constitutes competition, I assume it is the store. We link to the 'rosity store all the time in our magazine and they seem to think that is ok....

I also have a store on my personal site and they think that's ok too....

In our case it worked in our favor, the number of emails I have received by those who felt that it was an unfair decision have been great. Now if the item reviewed is sold in both 'rosity and DAZ we link to DAZ, who also links to our reviews (gasp on a possibly competitive site).

That sounds a bit snippety, it isn't really, it has benefited us and I believe that one should follow the rules in someone else's home (and maybe learn from them). However, I'll be interested in seeing what happens when you open a store as well.

:-)

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