Copying and pasting the explanation from the site itself below. Enjoy the member downloads, and keep in mind that if you recolor and link to them before the weekend of 7/21/07, their location will be moved to the Free Downloads section, and will not be the same.
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Simphany.com is proud to announce that it will no longer be accepting Membership fees from the general public. As of 7/21/07, Simphany's current Member Section Downloads will be moved to the free section, and made available for free use to the public (do be sure to link back to the site though, and send pictures of your recolors! I love seeing them!)

The reason behind all of this starts, I guess, with the telling of a University based Sims 2 group that has offered to cover the domain costs the site requires, in return for exclusivity of member content. To put it quite simply, they want to make sure that no one else will have access to the files on my site, and a few other current and previous site owners that they've made the same agreement with--who now just submit creations directly to their site.

I declined the offer a year ago, when I was first asked to join (for one, I didn't know how to mesh yet, so I didn't think I'd be of much use to them...they assured me that recolors of meshes already hosted on their site would suffice, but I wanted my downloads to be available to the general public), but made a deal upon reconstruction of the site that once my site was "Self-proclaimed-Robin-Hooded" I guess you could say, lol, I'd make any and all Member Downloads that were current at the time available to the public, and from then on devote new meshes to the University site and forums.

I do not have permission to host their sitename here (or on my own site), but I hope to be able to give it out in the near future (it's an awesome idea they came up with). Please do not ask me for access to their downloads, I have already signed an agreement to make them exclusive to their use in exchange for hosting costs to the site.

Funny thing is that I was at my halfway mark with site costs, and planned on opening the Members Section to the public anyway once I had reached my goal of hosting costs for a year. Fate has a way of working out though, and I'm really happy and honored to have been asked to contribute to the University's Member Downloads section.

Although I cannot give out any information on their site name, the names of site owners--or even the Universities they are running their site from, I am able to give a little information about their goal, and what they do on my site (click the "Important Site Updates" button for further explanation).

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all the members who helped to keep the site open. Enjoy the free Downloads everyone! And yes, I will keep the free section updated-- I promise! No more emails about that, please.