Moebius87 opened this issue on May 23, 2002 ยท 43 posts
Questor posted Fri, 24 May 2002 at 11:16 AM
Hrrm. Copyright. Interesting. Other people have been told in no uncertain terms that it's a bannable offence to post freestuff links to competing sites. Points here are 3DArena for instance, because it is a "competing site". I would assume that exactly the same rule applies to RDNA as that is also a competing site, as is Poserworld etc etc etc blah blah ad nauseum. The Antares Bridge has been the subject of multiple threads, not one or two, but several. Moebius himself started this thread which seems to indicate that nobody from here contacted him first about this, I thought that was policy? Contact the offended parties to check before action. Or is that just for the galleries? RDNA deleted the files from their site because they were linked to from here and that is against their TOS which is stated on their freebie pages. They can't afford to lose the bandwidth that this place sucks away from sites, so their step was acceptable and they offered to host them again provided Billy didn't link to them, they didn't ban him so I guess they knew what was going on. I agree that mods can't be expected to read every single thread but they can browse headers and if this had been the case they will have seen several threads with the title Antares Bridge in them, but... Well. So, it's copyright protection. I dunno. I find that hard to believe somehow considering some of the actions and statements made in recent weeks and the fact that other copyrighted items remain in freestuff until the original author mentions it - such as the items recently from Dendras. But, I have no tangible proof to call this statement into question so I guess I'll just have to accept it. You will of course excuse my suspicious nature but there has been a lot of erm... eager decisions of late. :)