beatings and salivations, kiddies, it's the Wolfboy comin' at ya live from the rusted guts of the NightMare Machine with a little something to get that vein in the side o' yer head throbbin'! we've all been privvy to the big debates here at Camp R'osity ad nauseum: the Big Breasts Bruhaha, the Is Poser Really Art Argument, and so on. it's been a good while since we had anything new to spit and cuss over, so lemme throw the first suckerpunch to the chin of the masses and bring up something that's been burning in my blackened brain for a while. we download freestuff...oooh BOY do we download it! i've got stuff that's been shuffled from CD-R to DVD-R a few times over, stuff i may not even ever use, but just in case, i've got it, brother! we take, we take, we take. of course, all that stuff wouldn't be there if it were not for those that give, some generously, some with understandable rules, some with rules that seem to go against the whole spirit of giving back to the community from which one has so deeply dipped his bucket into. we have folks that allow any use of what they provide, then others who allow the same so long as we don't try to sell the actual items themselves, which i can get my teeth into...that's only right, methinks. we also have folks, like this one guy who shall remane nameless (i'm not trying to beat anyone up here, just get opinions), who provides all this great stuff, BUT doesn't even allow commercial renders with ANY of it without paying a fee for the "free" item to be used. the readmes clearly state that you can't even archive it to a CD/DVD without his divine blessing. i asked him about all this at one point, and he said simply that if he works hard on his stuff, and if he doesnt make any money, neither should anyone else. kinda defeats the whole idea of "giving back" if ya ask me. so, here we go, whaddya think, dear victims? people have the right to want what they want when it comes to their freestuff, right? does it reflect badly on the giver when he/she places overtightened restrictions on stuff that's supposed to be a method by which to repay other community members for their generosity? have we become so vain and greedy that we no longer feel good about giving someone a hand up? one of the common threads i see here is people having a hard time financially, the casual mention of it here and there. what if someone had the chance to make some money (we could all use it, eh?) with a few renders, and the very things that would turn out the perfect works had the "no commercial renders" lock on 'em? wouldn't it give you that warm, fuzzy feeling to know that something you gave up as freestuff helped someone else? so there it is, snap it up and get a good bite of it...i'm listening..