This is exactly what happend to me.  Dr. House is right...it's probably not gone.  My husband had to reformat my hard drive and reinstall everything.

And its already reposted again too.

MTS still has the teen pregency hack and the nude hack.  EA considers that adult content (its stated specifically in their forum guidelines)

I get your argument, but I think I get Paden's tool.  One argument against paysites (besides the EULA) was that they were making money off of the worker free creators by using tools made by free creators.  With the Sims3, we've already seen people outraged at Rose and Peggy for making stuff using Wes's and Delphy's tools because those tools specifically say they are for free content/file share friendly.  TSR avoids that by having their own tool--which will not be file share friendly.  Which means, PMBD will look bad by including TSR creations made with their tool because we aren't respecting their TOU while making such a fuss over people violating Wes's and Delphy's TOU.  Yes, they are allowing their tool to be used for free content, but it is almost certain that it will also be used to make pay content for their own site.  They may honestly be concerned about Mac users (which is good), but they also may just be using RYG to make themselves seem more community friendly too.  There's been some evidence in the way they've treated Delphy, Inge, and the other free creators who helped them develop the tool that this is more about PR than actually being better people.  I was ready to give TSR the benefit of the doubt but I did get a virus from their site when I downloaded their tool (from an ad, not from the tool itself as far as I can tell).  That's an old issue that's happend to plenty of people before me and if they can't be bothered to do something about that, I highly doubt they can be bothered about a lot of the other stuff their accused of either.

What's weird is that you seem to able to mention Mod the Sims all you want.  I've been posting over there telling people to check out Mod the Sims but not posting a link.  I wonder why the double standard?

And to clarify further on the whole targeted ads thing, most ad groups I've worked with on websites let you tailor the ads towards your audience of your website.  For instance, the home decorating site I worked on for a bit would have ads for furniture stores and home improvement stores.  Or like at MTS, where the ads are mostly video games/movie ads.

Either they don't make enough off of ad revenue to care about the ads that show up (ie the money they make off of non-subscribers) or the shady ad company pays well enough that they don't care what kind of ads they are.

Not that I know either of them particular well, but both Delphy and Inge strike me as very nice people.  Which is why scumbags like Thomas can use them to pull the crap he pulls. 

Now for some good news--HP release two of her new hairs over at MTS.  I'm downloading them now and I'm going to try them in my game.

I'm thinking it was more likely an ad.   It was a few days after I downloaded it and I had gone back to read something on their site.  However, I didn't know my husband had removed my now expired virus protection.  In the end, he had to wipe my hard drive and reinstall everything.

I also got a virus from TSR.  It's why I've been gone the past few weeks.  It totally borked my computer.  I'm pretty certain it happend when I went there to download their creation tool to compare to the Delphy's.  So I did download something.

Well, TSR finally has their CC up and running.  Mostly the same as MTS, etc.  Everythings free and I must admit some of the patterns look decent.  But there were two things in the lots section that caught my eye

http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims3-lots-community/title/Shopping%20Complex/id/878861/

http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims3-lots-community/title/All%20In%20One%20Community%20Location/id/878820/

Are these possible?  Did they actually have someone figure out how to make your own rabbit holes?  Any brave souls out there want to download them and find out?

Oh...and by the way..You too can be an SA or FA

TSR is being forced to play nice.  I don't believe that they've suddenly gone sunshine or rainbows or anything--but I think they have realized that if they do want to fail, they have to make it look like their playing nice with the community.  They can't give coconut any more ammunition.  So even if their doing to it to make money, I suspect there will be less dramaz coming out of TSR.

However, it looks like coconut may have got this one slightly wrong...I expected TSR to be out of the gate with all sorts of downloads for TS3.  Instead...there's just a placeholder.  Meanwhile, MTS already has a few downloads including some new textures and a tutorial on how to do them.

I'm going to reserve judgement til I actually see it.  Perhaps, Steve or someone over there finally has got a clue and put a stop to the shennanigans, realizing that all this crap has done nothing but hurt TSR.  While coconut's post is food for thought, she really hasn't any hard evidence their up to something other than an "Oh crap, we screwed up with Sims 2--let's try and start over with Sims3"

If they want to try and clean up what's left of their image, well good for them, I guess.  I still won't pay for stuff from their site but if their going to at least try and play fair, I won't give them shit for it.

As much as TSR likes to hint at how cozy they are with EA, they actually haven't violated that clause.  If they claimed on the site they were a partner with EA or somehow officially endorsed or recognized by them, it would.  They skirt the line closely on that one with their talk of "access" and "inside info"  but generally fall on the side of legal.  And EA is really the only who could do anything about it anyway and as we've seen they generally choose to look the other way.  However, if the shit ever really hit the fan to the point where TSR's problems were causing major butthurt for EA, I would imagine EA would invoke that clause, claim that TSR is fansite and no way affilated with them.

Actually, I'd buy that this really has nothing to do with TSR and their general fuck-upness.  A local credit union recently was the victim of phishing scam.  The culprits faked e-mails using graphics from the site and a slighty changed address (.com instead of .org).  They then sent the e-mail to anyone living locally (I got one and I don't even have an account there).  The credit union acted quickly, sent out both e-mails and snail mail letters to its customers to warn them.

My guess is this is something similar.  TSR probably had nothing to do with it and it may not be a result of any lax security on their part.  I appear to be TSR's mailing list and didn't get one.  My guess is that the people responsible just culled e-mails that people had foolishly posted somewhere on the site.  That's why they are actually warning people--this didn't happen because of anything they did.  Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if they took advantage of the situation to blame those 1337 haxor pirates.