[Taking down the GameFront files]

In response to post #67714036. #67742636 is also a reply to the same post.

Crypto341 wrote: Well that sucks. I get where gamesfront is coming from but they couldve left them up on the nexus as a backup. Screw the other sites hosting anything since you had a legitimate reason for putting these on nexus. I would've never found mods for Stalker games if they weren't on nexus. I don't know other modding sites aside from GUN and i cant stand them; and now gamesfront i suppose.

axonis wrote:

Screw the other sites hosting anything since you had a legitimate reason for putting these on nexus.

As legitimate as anyone hosting mods without authorization. But in your logic, when the Nexus copies mods without authorization it's "archiving", when others do the same, it's "mod theft".

@axonis I disagree. According to the above write-up, the people who run Gamefront had reached an agreement with the Nexus. Other sites who hosted the files had no such agreement. The Nexus was under no obligation to renegotiate, but did so out of courtesy to their peer.

With that said, this entire issue of redistribution rights for freeware is simply not well addressed in the current body of IP law. There is little real recourse in such a dispute, and I think the Nexus absolutely took the high road in this situation!

[Site statistics]

Exciting stuff!

 

I'm interested in how you arrived at the 15% adjustment for piracy. Was this value suggested by Bioware, or your own research? Also, if you are simply reducing the number of modders by this percentage to account for the fact that 15% of all DA:O PC players pirated the game (my assumption), doesn't that assume that mod use is equal between people who purchased the game and people who illegally downloaded it?