Did I miss the drama?

If he had the skill and power to do anything other than make everyone point and laugh, then he would have already done it.

How completely boring.

The only amusement here is that a thief is all narked off because we're making it a lot less profitable for her / him to be a thief. For some reason, I fail to feel any regret.

The irony is that EA itself is probably the largest distributor of payfiles in the Sims 2 community, thanks to the Exchange.

EA tried to do a nice thing, back in the days of Sims 1, by looking the other way if custom content creators recouped a nominal amount to cover bandwidth fees. Like the old story about the camel who asks if he can keep his nose inside the tent at night to keep it warm and then steadily takes a mile when given an inch (my ears are cold...my neck is cold...my front half is cold...surely you wouldn't be so selfish to deny my front legs the chance to stay warm?), the camel is eventually inside the tent, the camel driver is outside in the cold, and then the camel pretends that this is all okay and the way it should be and that it has a right to usurp the tent and fights like hell to retain ownership of the tent that doesn't belong to it.

Now we have a plague of paysite camels who all think they are entitled to make money off of stolen goods. Dressing up something you stole with different kinds of wrapping paper and bows does not make it any less stolen.

The community has made tools FOR FREE to encourage content SHARING, but greedy paysite wankers use these FREE tools and FREE meshes to make money off of content owned by EA. The gall and brazen effrontery of it all.

EA, as noted, is probably the biggest distributor of Sims 2 paysite content on the planet. Smaller sites like PMDB, where all the available content HAS BEEN PAID FOR ALREADY, are not stealing. They share what they have bought and own.

Then you have clueless wankers coming in thinking they are justified in trying to protect some pissed-off thief from the inevitable consequences of his/her dishonesty and greed. Ooh, big bad leet haxxor. Soooo scary. :roll:

The whole thing is just laughable. Did a whole bunch of paysite people get hit in the head and have their moral compasses messed up? I mean, really.

I particularly love it when paysite people come here and threaten and whine and then go and download several Gs of booty for themselves. That's my favourite bit.

So you got away with being a thief for a while. Wow, what fun, selling stuff you prettied up. Too bad it was never yours to sell in the first place, super genius. Now the community as a whole is wising up and realizing what a stinking cancer you are and are insisting on fighting back and not giving you or any other greedy pay content assholes any more money. Suck it up and get a real job, you morons. Your scam is circling the drain. Boo fucking hoo, cry me a river.