I have ONE thing to say... Can't we all get along? C'mon people, if we keep arguing and saying that "this" "that" or the "other thing" isn't safe from someone taking it, ripping it apart, repackaging it and calling it an "original work" we are going to drive people from wanting to create original work and WE are the ones at a loss, NOT them. We can't sit by and let someone blatently and maliciously rip off another artists work. I strongly suggest you remove your head from your arse and wake up. What's next? A combination of textures isn't a copyrightable thing because eventually someone could come up with something similar. (After all there are only so many color combinations out there.) That is just a rediculus idea because once the first stroke of the mouse or pen goes down it becomes YOURS. That is no different than a setting of 24 lights. The arrangement, specifications, angles, rotations, color setttings, shadow and shadow map settings is a tangiable piece of work and as such belongs to BlackHearted. It is damned near impossible that one person could come up with a SET identical to this one on their own. I'm also sure that BeBop or one of his many alter ego's is sitting back reading this thread laughing his ass off because people are STILL talking about it. BeBop was banned, BlackHearted wasn't. THAT speaks volumes about the situation in and of itself. Let the subject die and let's move on. There are bigger and better things that we can ALL be doing than dredging old news back up. BlackHearted, your gracious and more than professional stance on the issue continues to amaze me. You are a wonderful person and your work still continues to keep me in awe of what can actually be done. Don't stop! So let's go do something else with our times, there's much art to be had...go, pose, render, postwork and HAVE FUN! Now back to my regularly scheduled nap Kymm

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