I am not ungrateful to those who post their free items, quite the contrary, I take the time to say "thank you" quite often. And yes, I will take the time to write to people when I want to use their free stuff for commercial renders. However, #1, often I lose the readme and cannot find the zip anymore. #2, alot of people change e-mail addresses more often than Liz Taylor changes husbands. It's hard to e-mail someone for permission when their e-mail no longer works. That's why I feel free should be free, period. If you're going to require someone to ask for permission, it's not really free, because there is a cost associated with its use, even if it is taking the time to e-mail someone and wait for a response. Often I have clients who want a piece of art right away and they don't have time for me to wait several days (as is often the case) to get permission from someone to use their item. Now, if all contributors wanted to get upset and say "if you don't like the restrictions, don't download the free stuff" and if everyone listened, there would be no one downloading the stuff and no point in having it. Of course, not everyone would stay away from the downloads, but I thought contributing to free stuff was out of the spirit of giving and "tis better to give than to receive" and such. If that's not the case, if the reason you contribute is not to share with others and be kind and gracious and giving, and to have others enjoy your work, then why contribute? Again, I am not ungrateful. I am very, very grateful to free stuff contributors. But this whole thread did not start out to be a bash-the-people-who-restrict-their-stuff thread, it was simply a suggestion to change the default setting and I thought I would interject my opinion that I thought it was a great idea. Perhaps by having non-commercial as the default people who did not mean to restrict their items might accidentally do so. After all, people who DO restrict their items are the ones who need to be careful and check their settings. People who put no restrictions might not be so careful when posting.