Artists of the Submitted Sprites were allowed to Claim one Free Sprite when their sprite was released and they were marked as the person who sprited it in the P3 lab. I'm not sure if it was intended but it seems like a pretty fair trade. Free Onsite Sprite(tipped) and Credit as payment? But for that, you weren't allowed to turn around and give legal trouble because you did see in writing the terms of what you were accepting. Think of it as a way of keeping their butts covered in case of people who turned tail and tried to pull a nasty because of a disagreement on something else. It's not really fair to the people on the receiving end if they're given the sprite to use, for someone else to turn around and try and take it away over something on a completely different topic. Something like that can mess with both the people running the website AND the people who come to enjoy the website themselves. Paymentwise, the Sprite was something you could trade away(or collect) if you chose and you were given Credit that if someone liked your sprite and you were an active spriter, you could potentially get more "Business". Sort of like free advertisement almost. It at least suited me. -shrugs- Others may have wanted more but it seemed like a Fair trade/Reasonable Compensation. That's also the Old Website and you're comparing Apples to Oranges. Yes, they're both Fruit and come from trees with flowers but their flavours are different.