Advocating Free Content
madpauly:
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But still, the community was around for several years with not so much as a single request for any money, even voluntary, unless you count the charity CD which I think they never did finish anyhow.
Well, Bethsoft themselves put they kibosh on that... so it never happened and no money changed hands, charity or no charity.
It's almost 4am. I should be in bed...
angelica:
Let's try to put this in perspective. Website owners have a limited number of options;
(a) Run the site with own money no matter how much extra money it costs if bandwidth is continuely overused.
(b) Run the site until it costs even more than expected then shut it down.
(c) Keep it half free, half donation to pay for the free half.
(d) Make it all pay.
(e) Have it all pay except for a few free sets like it's charity.
(f) Put site on a lame free site and harass your viewers with pop-ups.
(g) Find someone to host you for free.
(h) Have everything free and pay yourself BUT put up donation link and hope someone will click it.
The best option I've seen is C.. XM, Peggy, and other of my favorite artists follow this. Quality is basically the same for free and donation.
The rest all have a major flaw and usually kills the site eventually.
For all the talk though about copyright by pay sites as I understand it Maxis can take away their intellectual copyright at any time. There are many companies that declare war on anyone who tries to mod their game(s). I'm thinking some sims fan creators have forgotten how lucky they have it currently.
Inge Jones:
You missed an option, Angelica. Decide on a hosting service and bandwidth you can afford, keep an eye on the bandwidth, and if it looks like going over the limit, take some of the files down for a little while or place them elsewhere. In the past I have used my Yahoo group for files that I suspected might produce a sudden surge, as Yahoo does the rationing for you.
I admit it's tough to keep bandwidth down if you're sharing whole Sims, lots or new meshes though. If I was making them I might opt to be selfish with my space and upload those to MTS2 or TSR or The Exchange :D
RGiles:
Another good option would be to use a filesharing program to spread your files, especially if you can be certain at least a few friends will keep your files shared. Then you can use a forum, yahoo group or plain email for support.
It's really an excellent option, I think, but I haven't seen anyone doing it.
Inge Jones:
On Neighbourhood99 they have a forum dedicated to filesharing, so creators register their willingness to have their files distributed that way, and users use that forum to ask when they want someone to send them a file. It's called POBS (Preservation of Bandwidth Society)
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