Sims 1:

Eph's Den - http://sims.ephralon.de
Secret Society of Woobsha - http://www.woobsha.com/
Ferndale - http://sites.google.com/site/ferndalesims/
Aponee - http://aponeesimz.com/index.html (+ forum with lots of downloads)
Empress - http://www.empresssims.com/
Hypnotix - http://hypnotix.ephralon.de/

I'm not interested in Sims3, but doesn't the new EULA allow everyone to modify fanstuff anyway? What's she gonna do when even EA says it's okay?
Modify her pay hairs a little bit and offer them for download everywhere, on MTS, on GoS, every big place, with a new creator name and just a tiny credit notice.
If she is save from the law in China you are safe from her too. Different continents works both ways.

Stolen from Tim Burton. That's Jack Skellington on the last one, and I think on the first one too. Once again TSR sells designs that are not theirs to take.

They didn't even check uploads in the Sims1 days. TSR doesn't care where the content comes from.
A quote from 2002! from Dov Sherman from Otakuworld, one of the early artists who managed to make custom meshes:
If someone steals your stuff once, that can happen. Twice? Raises concerns. But 8 times? Obviously even back then nobody was checking stuff, and I doubt that has changed over the years.
When I looked through their Sims1 stuff one day (for laughs) I still saw lots and lots of identical stuff listed under different creators, and I imagine there's lots of stuff lifted from other creators in the Sims2 section too.

Actually, now that Securom is gone I hope Sims3 doesn't tank. Just think of all the cool kids who will deinstall Sims2 to switch to the newest shiny toy - all lost money to TSR and other paysites, especially if the new Eula stays the way it is and everyone and their dog may modify and share stuff.

  How dare they send a password unsolicited in a spam mail?!

Okay, yours is a yahoo adress, but any bet that this is an automated mail to all non-paying users, so it goes to all kind of email adresses.
You could be sharing your email adress with someone who's not supposed to know that password. Maybe you used the email box of your ex and forgot to change it before you left TSR. You could have worked at a company and used a company address, so the email could end up in the catch-all mailbox of the snoopy sys op.
How can they send out a password without a specific request from you?
Nice, giving your ex-lover or an ex-colleague a chance to login to your account.

He even mistyped "mustbedetroyed" first time he mentions it and mistyped his own company name in the signature. I'm in awe at his professionality. 

A German newssite posted about the delay of Sims3 on Jan 26th.
http://www.spieletipps.de/n_16321/
Rough translation:

Here's the Eurogramer link in English:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/ea-evaluating-sims-3-release-date

So baaaaaah to the BBS sheeples, it's old news already.

Btw, Sims3 already got so many bad reviews due to Securom on amazon.de that it only has 1.5 stars, despite several 5 star reviews from sheeple.

Luckily I was able to show Coconut's latest post to several people before it went down. Can't wait to have it back up!

Btw, HTTPS is meant to protect you from outside scripts that fish your data while you log in, not from the site owner. If you truly think decent applications (like this forum software, for instance) don't encrypt your password and that everyone using HTTP is trying to get your data, you should get off all forums and other websites with login NOW. And if you think Paypal, amazon and other websites using HTTPS cannot view your adress and whatever other data you gave them just as easily as HTTP site owners - you should get off the internet completely.

To be back on topic, I wonder when coconut will update again.

I just read this at Parsimonious' front page ( www.parsimonious.org ):


Seemingly EA invited a few free creators, after all. Still, they should only have invited free creators and not that TSR scum. >_>

Just slightly related, but maybe interesting nonetheless:
Ubisoft used Securom on Farcry2 too, and they recieved massive protests and large amounts of pirating as a result.
So as a test they now released Shaun White Snowboarding and Prince of Persia without any copy protection at all. No cd key, no online registration, the cds don't even have to be in the cd drive to play.

They want to see if people really buy the games legally if there's no DRM, and they don't believe in a success. In their opinion Securom is most likely just an excuse to pirate a game.
So if you want to make a statement against Securom, maybe think about those games and show at least Ubisoft that no DRM is the right way...

This info is from a German gaming portal:
http://www.spieletipps.de/n_15962/

Since she was mentioned a page back - has someone who knows her tried to contact Enayla? Maybe she wants to pull her stuff too.

Geez, I don't even play Sims2 but this still upsets me greatly. I wish all refugees good luck in finding a comfy new place for their creations.

http://www.halfeatencorpse.com/livingdeadgirl/

I have never been there before, just went there today while browsing for nice free sites to link, but since some people said they downloaded from there I take it that there was more content before.

Living Dead Girl closed her website today.
I hope that wasn't TSR's doing?

I'm glad EA Land closes. From what I read on the blog they had only one person who approved fanstuff, so a lot of stolen content popped up in the game. Whenever one of the original artists came and complained EA just deleted the fanstuff with no compensation for the buyers.
If I had spent 150$ of my real money to buy custom content just to come back to my house later and find nothing but worthless placeholders because the cc became disapproved... oh boy, I can't understand how people could stick to that game for so long!

For someone who worked "so closely" with EA on this TSR kept a rather low profile in the blog, Simfreaks was much more prominent. I also noticed a fat EA Land banner on Simfreaks1 lately. Guess there's more than one paysite crying about lost profits now. 

I was only a member at SFV for two days and had no clue how it really worked yet. But I will rather pass on those few Sims1 files I yearned for or even pay for those still available at paysites than spending money on an overinflated forum software. 
I use SMF for years now without any problem and see no reason why it shouldn't be good enough for them.
In the only thread I checked at SFV all links were broken because the files were already deleted from the free hosts. It would have been so perfect to have a forum on Pescado's server with attachments.