Paysitesmustbedestroyed Sims 1
I don't believe in paying for CC either. I don't know if I've downloaded ripped off custom content. Considering it's not like the place you download it from would advertise the fact that it's stolen. The Unusuals Vostfr Download Free.
After x amount of times of getting that stupid 1 minute message that I can't flip past, I'm even more inclined to keep my adblocker on just to spite them. While SimsCave has included some paysite items in the past, that is not the focus of the site. Contributing Content through The Sims 3 Launcher. If you have an EA account and have registered the Software online, the Software allows you to download additional content for the game from EA.s website(s) and to upload content to the website(s) through The Sims 3 Launcher. Uploading and downloading.
Even if I did, I don't think I would care. Well, you can always Google for it. PAYSITES MUST BE DESTROYED!
That is true. If I cared, I probably would google it. I think that yes, there is some awesome TS2 stuff that is made, but just because it's good doesn't give you the right to hold your good stuff up for ransom. Put up donation options, or get involved with adding ads to your page, and asking people to click on them once and a while. All the major sites that offer 'free' content are based on donations. Mod the Sims 2.
The Sims Resource. Peggy Sims 2. This is where all the people who are 'sticking it' are downloading their 'free' content. There is no such thing as 'free' content. When you download an object, skin or whatever, you're creating a cost.
This cost is paid for by donations; by the creators through their long and hard labor (content creation is very time consuming); by money that the site owners have earned by getting up in the morning and going to work, and then paying the bandwidth bills that the 'free' downloaders are creating. I have personally donated to Peggy Sims 2, Mod the sims 2, Sims Connection, Holy Simoly, SimSlice, Wood for Sims (1 and 2), Around the Sims 2 and The Sims Vault. Because I helped paid the bills, these sites are still up offering content that you can download for free. You're very welcome. So you don't think that work should be rewarded.
So the next time your boss is handing you a pay check, you will say: 'Sorry boss, I believe all work should be FREE!' , and give the money back. A true philosophy stands to be tested. You're not downloading free content. You're just letting someone else pay for it.
Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:06 pm. Reminds me of second life. Nobody wanted to pay for virtual things but now they are spending most of their income on this FREE game. And they don't even get to touch it in real life. It's the first game to understand how to get real money for virtual items in todays world. More and more online games are leading towards this new wave. And oh ya you can't download these items off the net anywhere since it's linked to your account by creator/user/sub But if i like something i would pay for it but most stuff I find on sims content is just not good on paysites.
Donation sites have much more things but are over worked because not everybody will donate. If someone paid for it, and then posted it as a free download, it was already paid for Assuming that it is for covering BW, then it is not the donation item/set it self that you paied for. The site contain free downloads, and you can help keeping up the site buy donate and in return you get a special item/set or free downloading in a month or something like that. So here people who paid for keeping the site up, get their effort 'ruined' in some way.
This is not a question about laws but about moral and cooperation. So you don't think that work should be rewarded.
So the next time your boss is handing you a pay check, you will say: 'Sorry boss, I believe all work should be FREE!' , and give the money back. A true philosophy stands to be tested.
Working is really about trading time. 'Boss' own a, let´s say, shoe factory. He can produce a pair of shoes a day, sell them, and go home with the money he got. His problem is that if he wants to expand and earn more money, he must either charge more money for his shoes or produce 2 pairs of shoes a day. The coustomers will not pay more and the 'Boss' is limited to 24 hours a day, like the rest of us. So he will have to buy some more time.
'Unemployed' have no work and therefor plenty of time to sell of. He sell X amount of hours to 'Boss' who now can produce 2 pair of shoes a day. Ofcourse 'Unemployed' could have given his time away for free, and he´ll probably be rewarded with Thank You from 'Boss'. But 'Boss' could also give away his shoes for free. I´m sure that 'Boss' will be rewarded with a lot of Thank You´s:)..
I know that a factory that only produce 2 pairs of shoes is a really lousy factory *LOL* You can not compare TS (1&2) creations with working. 'Boss' and 'Unemployed' both own the rights to their products (shoes and time), but EA own the rights to The Sims 2. I don´t own the rights to the cc that I have created for TS (1&2). I am allowed to create them and share them with others. IMHO the whole problem lies in the community, the fear to deal with the question. In many forums, if you take up this issue you either get banned, your thread get closed or you get flamed. No one wants to get involved and make a stand.
The masses gets to dictate right and wrong and completely by-pass real laws. And as a player you can´t avoid custom creations. They come along with the houses/sims that you legally download from the Exchange.
You don´t even have to be a part of the community, to get problems with the community. The community provide players with a large numbers of nice and well done creations. But the community also offers a large number of hacks, fixes that change the game and creations that conflicts with the game. On top of it, you get hacks and fixes that conflicts with each other that makes your game unplayable.
EA encourage you to upload your creations to the Exchange or to download other creations from the Exchange, the houses you build, the sims/walls/floors that you create. You don´t have be aware or to know anything about SimPE, CleanInstaller etc. Or any forum to do it, it is a part of the game. But the problems that the community create (conflicting creations/hacks/fixes), forces you to be part of the community (to get help), and if you want to be part to the community, you have to obey to the laws that the community have created. And to obey to the laws, means that timeconsuming work (that you won´t get paid for) lays ahead of you: Everytime you download, you will have to weed through your Downloads folder, with CleanInstaller, to delete the unwanted/illegal items. You can´t just delete it all, cos then you delete the walls and clothes that you created with Body Shop and Homecrafter.
You can´t see which is which, you used the game as intended, and the game Installer rename everything and leave you with a bunch of numbers and letters that don´t make sence. And this is just when you play the game as it is created. You haven´t even started seaching for downloads on your own. The community laws leaves you with 2 options. 1) you can limit your self to only play the game and not use your legal right to take part of the whole Exchange thing 2) or you can use your game as intended, and be forced to obey the unwritten community laws. How fair is that. We need new community laws.
The old ones does not work with The Sims 2 and the Exchange Back to the original question. Does that Make Sense? Download pay content without paying Well. Morally it is not, and you could be part of destroying a world you love or at least enjoy. Legally (RL laws) there isn´t such things as pay items. They belong to EA. I have the impression that Pescado´s intention is to change the way the community laws work, but I don´t think that uploading pay/donation files will do the trick.
That just create a lot of mess and when the storm is over we are back where we started. We need to communicate with each other and incooporate RL laws with community laws. If we don´t do that, we´ll still have these problems when they release The Sims 10. Just my 2 cents Rose Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:44 pm. I wouldn't have thought that EA Games would allow the selling of addons to their game, since it's making money from their program.
Personally, I don't and wont pay for any mods. There's lots of great free stuff. I've yet to give a donation to a site, none have really impressed me enough to go - wow, this is everything I could ever want here have my hard earned money. I also don't like giving my credit card or paypal details out to any one.
There's been a few issues with copyright and people claiming others free files as their own and claiming / using them for pay sites. Most sim sites are annoying to navigate around (for some reason) that just erks the pants off me. And I wont pay for that lol Sat May 12, 2007 1:28 pm. It has always been my understanding that it is not permitted by the EULA to sell items made with BodyShop or HomeCrafter. The confusing points are as follows: Where items are offered in return for a certain amount of 'donation credits'. To me, this is actually pretty clearly selling the item, as it attaches a monetary amount to it. I'm not sure what EA's position on this.
Where a 'donation gift' is offered, this can, in some cases, be seen as 'selling' the item in return for the donation money. This appears to be allowed nonetheless.
I personally don't see a problem with this unless there's a huge catalogue of so-called 'donation' gifts. Where you are required to subscribe to download most items, some see this as 'selling'.
However, the payments in this case are for the service of downloading the items, not for the item itself. And here's where my brain starts chasing itself round in circles. Clearly, servers must be maintained, and if a small subscription fee is paid by the subscribers, that fee is for the download service, not the downloads themselves. So, if the content later turns up on a free site (including TheSims2.com), and we have previously established that the 'owners' of the content are still EA not the creators, then this must be absolutely fine, legally speaking, as the price paid by subscribers isn't for the download but the service. Sure, it's annoying for paysite owners, but if you created a paysite then you should have read the EULA, which states that you don't own any of the rights to the material you're providing in the first place.
Anyway, concluding, most paysites are just moneygrabbing nasty people, so I would quite happily download their content for free if I wanted and could get it. I'd rather have a free site with great content so I could donate to show my appreciation. Hope I've confused you all as much as I've confused myself!
Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:38 pm. Psion missed a voting option: I don't use paysites. That would be the one I voted for. Think of all the things one could spend money on: - House - Car - Insurance - Medical Bill (and all other bills, for that matter) - Taxes - Charitable funds - Clothes - Food - Hobbies - Gifts - A lot more ^Those are things that are actually IMPORTANT. I don't see 'Stuff for Sims' anywhere on that list. What I mean is, there are better things to spend one's money on, especially when there is free TS2 stuff out there. As someone - Calypso, I believe - said, No CC is worth buying, no matter how nice it is.
Could the owner of upload the file called Simslice-TS2-CaptainsWheel.zip, yet? It's very annoying that simslice is still going strong and will you have to subscribe $$$ to get new updated custom content as otherwise you'll get this message below if you used a wrong username and password. Authorization Required This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the content requested. If you have not signed up with Simslice for this feature, please visit Simslice's Subscription page.
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Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:31 am.