Kate answers:-

Overall we prefer everyone not to publish our downloads elsewhere as stand alone items. 

Parsimonious is of course, a free site, our online-time is pretty much 100% these days, there is no text in our navigation so Simmers can easily find what they're looking for, no matter which language they happen to speak, so in that respect it couldn't be easier to get a copy of our files and there isn't really any good reason to publish our items 'as is' on another website.

So... you don't allow file-sharing?

We do not allow the sort of file-sharing where other people can publish our items as individual downloads on their own website with or without credit, however private file-sharing is fine - if you have a friend without internet access and you want to give them our stuff on a CD then that's fine. If you want to email them to someone who has had trouble accessing the site due to their poor internet connection or if you want to share old items no longer on the site with friends on a forum or via email then that's fine. Of course if the site is down then we certainly don't mind if people want to sent out our items to groups of friends so they don't have to wait. 

The aim of all our policies is not to be unreasonable, or deprive people of full enjoyment of our files, we have tried to negotiate the fine line between making sure people can use our items, re-use them for their own published projects, but yet avoiding allowing idiots to post our files on their own sites without so much as a whisper of credit because they're too stupid or lazy to have a go at making their own downloads. It is irritating after so much time and effort to see some dreadful freewebs site hosting our files and claiming they made them just so the site owner can get hits and positive feedback, its nonsense and we don't want to see it!

As far as file-sharing goes, we ask our visitors to please use their common sense, and if you fear that your proposed method of sharing steps over the line then simply contact us in advance and ask if it is ok!

What about if I want to include your items with my own artwork: i.e. including one of your meshes with a dress that uses it, or putting your furniture in a house I am making and want to share?

If you would like to use our items as part of your own Sims creations, i.e. use our Sims 2 skins as part of a downloadable Complete Sim, recolour or clone our furniture files etc, then please see our re-use and re-distribution policies - they are fairly generous in that we do allow virtually all our items to be recycled into new downloads with a credit link but please do read the 'small print' before posting such items online. 

What about uploading your Sims 1 objects to The Sims Online?

Please see this topic for details

Can I share your Sims 1 Furniture, Walls & Floors with a house I've made that uses them?

As of 2008 we now allow visitors to include our Furniture as well as our Walls & Floors with their Sims 1 Houses (free or pay) - this can be done either by adding the files to the download zip of the house, or in a separate 'shopping list' zip available on the same page as the house download. Please see this topic for further details.