The Sims 2: Cesspool of wank
The Sims and it's cleverly titled sequel, The Sims 2 have a virbrant, lively, and wanky online community. The Sims 2 is very open-ended allowing users to download new homes, objects and clothing for their Sims, and this is where most of the wanks comes into play.

See, some sites are charging money for these downloads.

Charging money for downloads is a gray area legally. It's technically not legal, but EA turns a blind eye to it--and even exploits the idea of paysites by releasing Stuff Packs filled with only objects for Simmers to buy.

A group of Sim fans online finally had enough of this and with Pescado from More Awesome Than You taking charge, they formed: Paysites Must Be Destoryed where he has uploaded 'Booty' in the form of pay files from various pay sites online.

Natrually this does not go over well.

The biggest drama comes from LyricLee who despite decrying PMBD and those who download from it as "rotten
piece[s] of lowlife trash" has also been logged as downloading almost the entire contents of the site. Later LyricLee will claim that this was to "drain" bandwidth. However, close inspection will note that the downloads span almost ten days--a few files at a time.

This thread goes into more detail when it comes to the LyricLee wank

A few other highlights:

" You are destroying all work from all people and it seems you don't give a fuck about that .
I think you are just FULL of it , but the sad thing is that you take a lot of people down with this fucking childish grudge or whatever you think it is . "

HChangeri of Retail Sims says "So if anyone knows some good black hat hackers looking to have some fun, I'd love it if they could change the content of those files to some really nasty viruses. That way anyone who has the nerve to download stolen content gets a little instant karma for it. Ideally it would be nice to have the site hacked in its entirety but lets face it, the bastards will just pop up elsewhere.

Over on The Sims 2 Community links to PMBD are being deleted.

The hatemail/legal threats page is also not to be missed.

ETA: Oh noes, PMBD has caused Retail Sims to close down. HChangeri states: "What this group evidently doesn't have the mentality to grasp is that there is a third option which I am going to exercise - I will merely pull a John Galt. I am under no obligation to share anything I create with anyone. I will NOT have a group of low-life second-raters dictate the terms under which I can distribute what is MY WORK, MY EFFORT, and MY CREATIVITY nor will I allow them to dictate how I choose to spend or not spend MY MONEY. To this end, the contents of this website will be available only until December 1. After that point ALL sets will be permanently removed. I will delete all of my content from MTS2 and TSR. " Over-reacting much?

ETA 2: ari wonderfully explains the background of Sims paysites.

ETA 3: "From this point on anybody who links to or mentions sites which promote theft of files from other creators will be automatically and summarily banned. You have been warned.

ERA 4: HGhanger explains her choice to pull her conecnt: "
I WILL NOT BE FORCED TO SHARE MY CONTENT ACCORDING TO THE WHIMS OF A SECOND-RATER. NOT NOW, NOT EVER. MY CONTENT CAN ONLY BE DISTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO MY WILL AND MY WILL ALONE" Slow down there, Capslock Harry. She also goes on to state "If my husband did not have a high security government job this would not be a discussion and the files on that site would have been infected with a series of viruses designed to destroy a computer - not merely correctable by a format and reinstall."