ZurinArctus85 Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Somebody is stealing my work, editing it slightly, and posting it somewhere else. Is there a way I can encrypt my NIFs and .dds's and permanantly set them as read only? Or even make it so that Skyrim is the only program that can read the file? This is getting on my nerves and I haven't published a mod here for a while because this is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias555 Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Are they making texture/model edits and making your mod a dependency? I've seen a lot of darker and lighter edits of texture mods to suit their preferences and then sharing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankFamily Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 No way to do that afaik, and in fact, fortunately, a lot has been learned by opening other mods, see their author's approach to common problems. Open source is allways a good thing. There is some stuff you can do but it's not going to avoid the usage, might make it harder to the thief to say they made it, or in other words, at least there is proof the work is yours. > Textures: You can fill the non-UVd space or otherwise non-visible texture space with a watermark, might show a bit on edges while on upper mipmaps (viewing from distance) and if they want they can remove it, but takes time and photoshop.> Nifs: You can write your name all over the branch names, again, removable but takes time.> Scripts: Don't include the source, they can allways decompile it though. Haven't tested it but I remember someone said that Champolin fails to decompile scripts containing "While 1", if that's true you could add this within any script to block reverse enginering Function DoNotDecompile() While 1 EndWhile EndFunctionMy recomendation though is to just live with it. If your mod is good someone will upload it to some russian site (or other country, not saying all russians are pirates). You can control theft within the nexus since it has great moderators, outside of that anything can happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorKaizeld Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 I believe you can actually file a takedown notice as it is copyright protected under your name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZurinArctus85 Posted August 20, 2016 Author Share Posted August 20, 2016 No way to do that afaik, and in fact, fortunately, a lot has been learned by opening other mods, see their author's approach to common problems. Open source is allways a good thing. There is some stuff you can do but it's not going to avoid the usage, might make it harder to the thief to say they made it, or in other words, at least there is proof the work is yours. > Textures: You can fill the non-UVd space or otherwise non-visible texture space with a watermark, might show a bit on edges while on upper mipmaps (viewing from distance) and if they want they can remove it, but takes time and photoshop.> Nifs: You can write your name all over the branch names, again, removable but takes time.> Scripts: Don't include the source, they can allways decompile it though. Haven't tested it but I remember someone said that Champolin fails to decompile scripts containing "While 1", if that's true you could add this within any script to block reverse enginering Function DoNotDecompile() While 1 EndWhile EndFunctionMy recomendation though is to just live with it. If your mod is good someone will upload it to some russian site (or other country, not saying all russians are pirates). You can control theft within the nexus since it has great moderators, outside of that anything can happen.Well I've tried editing the file header in HxD, I've tried BitLocker and the last thing I'm going to try to do is change file owner metadata to something else from a Unix system using root chown or chmod. Not sure they will work. They are slightly editing textures and names and claiming they made everything themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias555 Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Where is it being uploaded to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZurinArctus85 Posted August 20, 2016 Author Share Posted August 20, 2016 I've managed to get them taken down with DMCA as Elianora suggested earlier this year. But they are going to Tesall.ru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorKaizeld Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Oh... A russian site. Yeah that makes sense. That site steals others mods all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZurinArctus85 Posted August 21, 2016 Author Share Posted August 21, 2016 Oh... A russian site. Yeah that makes sense. That site steals others mods all the timeIt's one of the most notorious sites that steal mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorKaizeld Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 Yeah just DMCA the stolen content... It's easier that way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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