Hello everybody. This message is addressed to every person have downloaded the Pc and/or Mac version of the copyright infringment product Barbara ditribuited by the member/merchant mgarramore through the Renderosity Free Stuff arera in link form and hosted to the mgarramone site. The Barbara product contains the body texture and body bump .bum plus the iris textures of our product Asia Package (with minor and unnoticable modifications, mainly the hue), as well as contains some commercial poses from Jen and from other artists/merchants in the MarketPlace. The Barbara/(Asia) license file says: "Barbara is a copyright of Futurartstudio.com. Use it for your personal use but alert me if you'll use this character for selling or for other commercial things. Barbara is totally free...i ask you only to send me an e-mail at ............................ to tell me what do you think about my character :) OK???" In this license Mgarramone have not only falsely claimed the ownership of our Asia product copyrights but also allowed everybody to re-distribuite re-sell our product pirated by him letting them commit other copyright infringments. So after the damage we've suffered due to the absolutely dishonest behavior of mgarramone (about 7000 pirated Barbara product downloaded for the 2 versions Pc and mac) and to protect our copyright, we want to be sure that everybody downloaded it knows that it is a pirated product and that it is obiouvsly not possible to re-distribuite it or re-sell it in whole or in part. The copyright infringment files were removed from the mngarramone site after we've contacted and sent the proofs to both the renderosity admins and our lawyer studios (where we've deposited the image proofs) and the abuse section of the hosting company where the files were hosted (the mgarramone site). Attached to this message there are only very few sample image proofs (we couldn't post our entire Asia texture for obiouvs reasons) that shows perfectly that everything was identical but the hue ( and but 2 little areas on the breats and on the back, the Asia body was present on the 95 % with 100% identical rough borderline of the texture and the 100% of the iris). We want to add also a section of the e-mail we've received from mgarramone (translated from italian): "I remember to Miss Zampini (StefyZZ) that the renderosity license of the products sold through renderosity says in the firsts 2 lines that the artist copyright is valid only for the products sold in the Market Place and not for the products FREELY distribuited through the Free Stuff area." So it seems that according to the mgarramone opinion everyone have purchased a product through the Market Place can re-distribuite it in the free stuff area without making any copyright infringment. The strangest thing is that mgarramone is a merchant too, so we can't believe he've written this kind of things, but he've written them to us. We're also unfortunately receiving from yesterday (the pirated files was discovered and pulled before yesterday) several e-mails with viruses attached and from misterious italian addresses in our e-mail box we use only for our customers and renderosity members, and that we've never, never received before. So we want to ask also, if possible , what is the admins point of view, about this. We should like to finish this message quoting the words of the President of Daz , Dan Farrel, that we feel so close to our thoughts: "we put considerable resources into creating our products. The value of these products lies in the fact that they are time consuming, expensive and difficult to create. Our goal is to sell this work to others, allowing them to start their projects from where we left off, and allowing us to earn money to live on and to invest in future projects. The problem arises when someone starts from our work, bypassing the investment necessary to get to that point, and then distributes "their" work in ways that may compete with our own product. And that's as complicated as our motivation gets. We simply need to ensure that no one can use our work as an unfair advantage to compete with us. And without having to go into the infinite number ways someone can create and distribute derivative work, this explanation should also help to clarify which specific methods of producing and/or distributing your work are permitted. The fact that this community is made up mostly of people who look for ways to support each other and our market, rather than parasites who continuously look for loopholes that damage others, is what makes this such a strong and growing community. (Speaking generally and not referring to anyone specifically.) Thank you very much for your kind attention. Sincerely, StefyZZ