Banned from CGtexture.com??

KWAN

I dled a bunch of textures from their site yesterday but today for some odd reason I think I may have been banned from cgtextures.com I click on the links says " Banned! " next to the links and I'm getting fatal errors connecting. Would someone mind sending me the info to contact one of the moderators? Is this happening to anyone else? Thanks.

glynnsmith

CGTextures don't allow for *bulk* downloading. Not saying that's what you were doing, but I think I had trouble with it early on and had to email in.

Shoot Marcel an email and explain yo'self - support@cgtextures.com

Olli.

what do you mean "bulk" downloading?

glynnsmith

Downloading lots of textures in a short time-span.

I think, when CGTextures started, they had problems with people running scraper scripts that'd cause problems with their servers, so (Again, I think) they put in some protection against that. It used to be in the FAQ, but I can't seem to find it now.

WarrenM

They do protect against it. If you don't have a membership, you're limited to a certain size of downloads per day. And members are limited based on what they're willing to pay.

So I don't know how downloading would get you banned unless you were doing something to get around the system.

glynnsmith

That isn't a way to protect against it, more than it is a way to monetise the site.

I'm talking about them having installed an anti-scraping script that'd be an active countermeasure.

Donavonyoung

I think he probably just hit his limit.