What is the deal with the "stop stealing" on the gallery?

ok .. so in this 'don't steal" business. At one point we didn't have "orignal by" field so that people could take someone's sim/building and without any changes reload it as their own without crediting the original creator and guess which of the 2 people got more downloads and "likes"? The person who downloaded it. I downloaded and changed stuff just around the time they added the Orginal by line-but I gave credit-in my story and in the gallery (I had to re-upload the building which I'm still using in my game today with minor tweaks here&there)


http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/854778/what-are-peoples-thoughts-on-stealing-in-the-gallery/p1