Actually, something just hit me, How would you feel if YOUR work was being given away freely and no one thought to tell you becuase they were afraid that you would think, say or do something to punish rather than reward their looking out for you? People who are looking out for other people look at this thread, see what the outcome of this is and say "Ya know what, she got jumped on for a good deed, F**K this I am NOT getting myself in trouble." You don't just hurt the good people, but also yourself. Sure, you can look for yourself and try to get the people doing it but you can't be everywhere all the time. Just think about that the next time you see your work on Morpheus or similar programs.

First, as I said before, I wasn't trying to harm anyone or tell other people how to get free stuff, that was never my intentions. It was an honest concern for how easy things are to come across, especially if you ARE an unknowing person such as myself. There is no real way to tell if stuff is legal or illegal without being around a community and reading things. Some people just do not know. Frankly, without being around here, I would have never known that some Renderosity files were illegal to share. File sharing programs or download sites ARE misleading in that respect if you don't know. One of my teachers asked me if in fact the files WERE illegal because she had never heard of Renderosity. And frankly I do have to agree with ScottA, I'm not sure I want to post messages, or anything else for that matter for fear of getting slammed even when the comments, ideas, concerns, etc are helpful or to look out for someone else's work. I don't blame you ScottA for the concern you have, it is a valid issue. It seems to me people have a tendency to jump on ones ass for well meant attempts. I also don't hold you responsible for other's actions here. The only final comment I have is this: Ban me if you wish to, since that's what seems to be the most common of wishes here. I'm sure there are other places to learn and grow, especially as this is just a hobby for me since I'm going to school for Psychology. But for god's sake, grow up. Arguing and bickering will not solve problems, coming together to find a solution is the only real way to stop something like this. I was hoping that more people would see this, but aparently as someone pointed out in an earlier post, "They can't even organize themselves without turning on eachother." Not only does this hurt the community in general, but is a total lack of respect for emotions and feelings. I have spent the past 24 hours looking back, re-reading stuff...and FEELING GUILTY for something I didn't even do.

Wow, I seriously didn't mean to cause such a great controversy. I just couldn't believe how easy stuff like that was. It just disturbed me and I wanted to look out for other artists on Renderosity. (Granted I'm not an artist, and lord knows I will never be an artist...I haven't even created something that I think is good enough to post here) I just felt AWEFUL to see peoples hard work just get given away for free. I don't know, I guess it just drives me nuts and makes me not want to work harder to learn how to make the photorealistic textures, and really cool clothing textures or even learn how to model clothes or hair myself for fear of someone ripping it off. Maybe that's just my over active paranoid brain working (Hey, you go to school for Psychology and see if you're sane when you get done. LOL) Sharkey, that is too kind of you, really. (Although, I'm secretely grinning) Maybe a better road would have been to personally IM all of the artists I saw work getting stolen from. But it's a little late for that now. Either way, I truly meant no harm, just wanted to voice my opinion on what I found.

OK, you have most of your music stolen (yes, that 96 binder was most of my cd's) and see if you can afford to rebuy them all...I'm sorry but spending 4000 a semester for school is a lil more than taxing on a budget)

JDexter, like I said, I use it to back up my collection. I'm in college, I don't have a lot of money and have a LOT of tapes (yes they exist) I figure if I bought it in one form at one point, it's ok for me to "upgrade" I'm not hurting anyone cos I have (or have had and still have the cases to) the originals. CD's are expensive and when people borrow them and don't give them back or just steal them (I recently had my binder with 96 cd's stolen out of my locker at school) It's impossible to re-buy all of them. I don't condone it either, I just can't afford to re-buy all of my music

I wasn't posting a tutorial on HOW to do it, I just wanted people to know that it's out there and it's too easy...It's really disturbing to me that me, with no real internet knowledge (only had internet for a few months now) can find almost anything....I can only imagine waht people who know more than me can find. And Sharen, Morpheus is a file sharing program like Napster was. I use it a lot to back up my cd collection cos I have NO clue how to back them up. (And my cd's always seem to get stolen :( ) I just never realized until today that it wasn't just music you could get from it.

Ok, that's what I'll do... :) thanx guys

Ok, so basic run down here, if my friend wants to give me the stuff, provided he gets rid of it, it's ok and I shouldn't worry about running stuff on both computers (once I get my own) because they're in the same house. I completely agree with having to buy multiple copies of software for the same household. It's expensive enough and with a wedding and baby frivelous expenses are just not in the works for quite a while. Wolf, I can only imagine how your kids friend felt when you gave him Bryce :) I've seen stuff that can be done with it, but don't want to download the demo cos I think I'll like it too much and want it LOL It's too bad more companies don't offer educational software, Microsoft does, surprisingly. I spent a whole 25 dollars on my Office 2000 copy (yes, it's complete just no manuals or boxes or stuff) and they have the Office XP for 35 if I buy it through school) But none of the cool stuff. Trey actually got Poser 4 from his college that cut back the number of labs it was in to save hard drive space. But even programs like Photoshop that he can get from school aren't that much of a deal. Just an idea, for graphic students, educational software is a great thing, they don't need the fancy stuff, but even better deals on the older versions would be nice.

Ok, that makes a lot of sense. We don't have a network yet, but I'm thinking of getting a computer soon to help with school. (He's a computer hog when he's home and I can't type up papers on time LOL) There's just a lot about it that confuses me, because so much can get you into trouble with software stuff now-a-days. I didn't know until recently that if I owned something and had both a desktop computer and a laptop, I couldn't (or shouldn't) have it on both computers at the same time, eventhough, no one would be using one of the computers (like away for business or whatnot) And to me that's silly that I have to buy 2 copies of the same thing if it's my computers (but I suppose I can see where vendors are coming from) THe only reason I knew about that was Trey had some issues having a few programs on both his laptop and his home computer, eventhough the laptop isn't used at all unless he's away from home.

That's one of the things I was worried about...but since it's on his computer and I just play with it (for fun, not like what I do, I'm going to school for criminal psych) He's Mr. Big Shot Creativity Pouring Out His Ears in Bucketfuls LOL And that's what my friend said. Because he's got newer versions of stuff that he didn't need the old ones anymore and figured someone should be able to use them, even if just for shits and giggles. But reading through the previous posts here about warez and illegal stuff it kinda had me worried. The last thing I need is to be sued for something. (I have enough troubles with the wedding coming up and a baby on the way!) Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to have some of the stuff available, I just wish it didn't cost so darned much! (Poor blokes like myself just have to make due I suppose) But I never thought that we could get in trouble for me playing with Trey's stuff...