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MMD Miku's Rant on the Rules ... — Description
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Miku: Can I go sit down now?
Me: Yeah, sure thing, thanks for the help ...
Miku: (walks over to the bandstand on her Telstar stage; then she sits down and chews on a leek she had somehow managed to hide amongst her clothing)

OK, you might be curious what all this is about, and here's the low down. I was looking for something for Miku this morning and the only thing that I found close was listed somewhere here on DA. In the commentary section was this text (and I am sure all of you have seen similar text elsewhere accompanying models offered for download on DA):

MY MODEL RULES:
-DO NOT EDIT!
-DO NOT CLAIM AS YOUR OWN
-CREDIT ME WHEN YOU USE HER!
-DON'T ... sic
-Comment if you download her ... sic
-SHE WILL BE TAKEN DOWN IF YOU GUYS BREAK MY RULES EVEN ONCE! ... sic ... I don't want people abusing her, so if she's abused ONE BIT, she WILL be taken down as soon as I learn that she's being abused.

Well, with an invitation like that, what else could you do but to pass on the download and move on? But it does make you think why people even bother to offer models for download with that kind of attitude doesn't it?

Now, what I am going to say is probably going to be controversial, but hey, this is all in the spirit of a good debate ... right?

I have made a lot of original models for MMD. For the most part these models uses no rips or borrowed parts, everything is built from scratch. (Ok, I may have used some textures such as Miku posters, but for the most part these serve more to promote Miku related products than anything else). And where I have used parts by others (even on rips done by others) due credit is noted somewhere (unless there's no readme.txt and like I'm some kind of pyschic and can remember who to credit from memory ... doh).

However, if you noticed, none of the models I offer for download are accompanied by any rules; not even a whine for "CREDIT ME WHEN YOU USE".

Instead, they are all simply covered under a Creative Commons License as noted on each model's home page in the right hand column under where it says License. ie.:

Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

If you're unclear what that means exactly, just click on the link that DA has kindly provided.

Each download, is packaged with a readme.txt containing all the information you need to know pertaining to the download, and in all cases, full (and sometimes even illustrated) instructions so that even most beginners can get the benefits from the model.

There are no whines about:

- not editing (that's already covered by the terms of the license)
- you'll be a real bastard/bitch if you claimed it as your own
- I don't really give a toss whether I'm credited or not if used (after all that's just a courtesy right?)
- there are no restrictions on use (except the non-commercial/non-profit part)
- and there are no threats on taking down the model for "in-fractions". Like why would I even think of doing something as stupid as that?

Oh, did I mention I really get ticked off by hypocrites? If there was a model I really care that much about that I would be upset if people did with it things I didn't like, I would never offer it for download on the Internet. Come on already, talk about sprouting crap; what possible motive would you have on offering a model for download if you're worried that it might be abused? I'll tell you what I think it is, and I'm not going to mince words here; if you did something like that, you're nothing but an "attention whore".

And to "rub salt into the wound", so to speak, in many instances the models in question were cobbled together by parts from other models, repainted and renamed. I really do feel sorry for the original Japanese modelers sometimes and can understand why some of them are so upset with the MMD community outside of Japan.

I've been modeling/modding for games for awhile now. Not counting what I've done for MMD, I actually have had over 1,000,000 downloads worldwide - all for free and with no restrictions other than what's noted above.

Do you want to know why I do this?

It's really very simple:

1/. I enjoy what I'm doing and I actually use my own "crap".
2/. I like to share, I'm a big believer in "community", online or otherwise.
3/. I actually make the models for YOU.

Personally, I've probably never met "you", but I know you're out there. We probably will never meet in real life, but that doesn't matter as we connect every time you visit my words, pictures, work and I appreciate that as you have your own life; your time is important to you and the fact that you view, comment, download or use my work honors me.

So why on Earth would I want to put conditions on that?

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Miku: You done? Like I'm bored here already ...
Me: Yeah, sure, thanks for waiting.
Miku: Can we see the rest of Nagisa City? I think it had a Shopping Mall ... ^^
Me: Yep, we sure could ... but I was rather hoping to check out that fishing boat that came with the city model.
Miku: Hentai! You just want to see me in a bikini again!
Me: Nope, seriously I just want to see that boat.
Neru: Actually he just wants to see me in a bikini again ^^
Miku: Oh, yeah, what have you got that I don't have ... ?

.... and so the saga continues - thanks for visiting!

CREDITS and NOTES
Miku Xsb model - Mqdl
Stage - Miku's Telstar Stage from my gallery
Backdrop - Internet wallpaper
MME effects - object luminous, diffusion 7, adult shader
Pose/camera/lighting - self made

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