Aeradom Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Oh there are ways of checking things that actually add new items. Not a texture person myself so can't really comment on whole loading them up and comparing them side by side. But thieves also make silly mistakes. Like file names being exact same thing. Or supposedly unique scripts being exactly the same. By their very nature thieves tend to be lazy :tongue: True, thanks for your time in explaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzerfong Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 (edited) This raises a question that I've been wondering about for some time. The first comes in more the form of clarification; if someone posts a mod with the same content, how does one know it's a different mod as opposed to just a reposting of the original under a different name? For the purposes of this question, let's assume it's someone that is established in the community and not merely someone who got banned, created a new account, and reuploaded it. Moreover, is it enough for it to be considered a unique mod just to of been rebuilt by someone else? Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I crack the formula for Coke and recreate it under the brand "Cadre Cola" (+1 to anyone who gets that reference), I don't think I'm going to be allowed to get away with that. Sure you would be allowed to. People reverse engineer stuff all the time. It'd be a dick move to post a mod that does *exactly* the same thing. Especially if you learned about how to do that from another mod. Also some folks have the same idea, and simply don't realize another person has made such a mod. Just because a person got to a point first, doesn't give them any right to plant a flag and prevent others from re-creating their mod. Finally, I don't think Nexus ever wants to get in the position where a moderators have to deal with that garbage. I can already see the arguments about what upload dates to check. Like if the person used Beth.net or the site that shall not be named. Now if said person literally downloaded that persons mod and modified it, that's another ball of wax. Because at that point, without permission, stole his/her work. Not being a modder myself, I assume there's some way of telling if a mod was downloaded, repackaged and then re-uploaded as opposed to someone uploading a "unique version." In this context, an M4 made from one person would look the same as the other right? Or are there subtle differences that would be what determines if it's stolen or not? Due to the nature of porting, textures rarely go unchanged (or else it would look like lineart, lol). For most, some semblance of tweaking will be necessary to kinda force it to look alright. Not to mention, when porting meshes, if the sizes, positions or name of the parts are exactly the same, that's usually a dead giveaway. However, besides that, it's pretty hard to argue either way, because the ported doesn't own the mesh. Yes, they ported it, but they have no ownership of it. Edited September 11, 2016 by dazzerfong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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