Mods being stolen!?

[NCRForever]

Let's just say that I'm NOT Liberal in anything that I do or say. Not politically correct either. I see no reason to kiss someone's backside for any reason. If someone gets butt hurt over anything that I say or do, that's on them. I don't coddle anyone.

[BenevolentSpirit]

I mean look what happens to pirates at sea? They are either killed by the authorities or they are caught and receive the highest sentences.

Unless they will always remember this as the day that they almost caught captain jack sparrow

[TheSpaceShuttleChallenger]

I'm not saying that mod theft is acceptable by any means. People should remain vigilant, disclaim any mod thiefs they encounter, and Nexus and individual mod authors should make efforts to shut down anyone who is caught stealing. But even with that, theft is still going to happen. Do your part to resist any theft you encounter, and then get f*#@ over it. Throwing a fit and removing your mod is the stupidest, most self-defeating reaction I can possibly imagine. You're hurting yourself (throwing your own hard work in the trash) and your fans (who no longer benefit from your mod) whilst doing literally nothing to stop mod thieves. They'll just start posting up old versions of your mod from their hard drives, and your mod will become an even bigger target for theft than before because you've made theft literally the only means of acquiring your mod.

[Fkemman11]

I'm not saying that mod theft is acceptable by any means. People should remain vigilant, disclaim any mod thiefs they encounter, and Nexus and individual mod authors should make efforts to shut down anyone who is caught stealing. But even with that, theft is still going to happen. Do your part to resist any theft you encounter, and then get f*** over it. Throwing a fit and removing your mod is the stupidest, most self-defeating reaction I can possibly imagine. You're hurting yourself (throwing your own hard work in the trash) and your fans (who no longer benefit from your mod) whilst doing literally nothing to stop mod thieves. They'll just start posting up old versions of your mod from their hard drives, and your mod will become an even bigger target for theft than before because you've made theft literally the only means of acquiring your mod.

 

Very well said! You make an excellent argument. :thumbsup:

[Ethreon]

I'm not saying that mod theft is acceptable by any means. People should remain vigilant, disclaim any mod thiefs they encounter, and Nexus and individual mod authors should make efforts to shut down anyone who is caught stealing. But even with that, theft is still going to happen. Do your part to resist any theft you encounter, and then get f*** over it. Throwing a fit and removing your mod is the stupidest, most self-defeating reaction I can possibly imagine. You're hurting yourself (throwing your own hard work in the trash) and your fans (who no longer benefit from your mod) whilst doing literally nothing to stop mod thieves. They'll just start posting up old versions of your mod from their hard drives, and your mod will become an even bigger target for theft than before because you've made theft literally the only means of acquiring your mod.

OR maybe they don't remove the mods from their HDD, but simply remove it from the internet and only share with a few while adding to it more features you'll never get.

[llamaRCA]

Throwing a fit and removing your mod is the stupidest, most self-defeating reaction I can possibly imagine. You're hurting yourself (throwing your own hard work in the trash)

 

Closing a mod from downloads or removing it entirely doesn't mean it ceases to exist. Mod authors usually keep backups of their work, play with their work, build more stuff than they release and can always build more.

 

and your fans (who no longer benefit from your mod) whilst doing literally nothing to stop mod thieves.

 

 

Presumably fans already have the content and have cleverly backed it up if they value it highly. I've been burnt often enough when mods have been taken down that all my favorites are backed up.

 

 

They'll just start posting up old versions of your mod from their hard drives, and your mod will become an even bigger target for theft than before because you've made theft literally the only means of acquiring your mod.

 

 

Huh, so I see this more as an argument against ever releasing content in the first place. It just sounds like a threat. Mod authors have to do what players want or suffer the consequences.

 

Also, people who take/upload our work generally don't support it. Which is another issue to consider in why a mod author may remove his/her work. Some authors take stuff down when they are no longer involved in the community. That's how I've lost access to some of my favorites. The authors weren't leaving angry or anything they just didn't want orphaned work up. Most authors don't care so much about that and leave it to the community to manage it in the comments rather than removing it.

 

I only bring that up because there are many, many reasons why an author might take their work down and it's important to recognize that an author has the moral right to do with their work whatever they want. The community doesn't own the work; the author does.

[bluesunmerc]

People steal mods because they are sad and pathetic.

[steve40]

I'm not saying that mod theft is acceptable by any means. People should remain vigilant, disclaim any mod thiefs they encounter, and Nexus and individual mod authors should make efforts to shut down anyone who is caught stealing. But even with that, theft is still going to happen. Do your part to resist any theft you encounter, and then get f*** over it. Throwing a fit and removing your mod is the stupidest, most self-defeating reaction I can possibly imagine. You're hurting yourself (throwing your own hard work in the trash) and your fans (who no longer benefit from your mod) whilst doing literally nothing to stop mod thieves. They'll just start posting up old versions of your mod from their hard drives, and your mod will become an even bigger target for theft than before because you've made theft literally the only means of acquiring your mod.

 

That's a fallacious argument given that modders can make their mod pages temporarily private, which hardly constitutes "throwing your own hard work in the trash", while users can keep backups of the mods they download instead of assuming they will always be available online. Modders lose nothing whatsoever (in fact they gain a lot by no longer having to give away so much of their free time to the modding community), but the pirates, let's face it, steal or reupload mods because they have zero modding talent themselves, and therefore stand to lose the most, especially if the modder decides to keep all their future work private in retaliation, as seems to be happening more and more frequently. Any user who feels "hurt" or "punished" by a modder hiding his mod pages for whatever reason clearly has a very bad case of inflammatory rectum and needs to get the f*#@ over it. But all the more reason to keep our mods to ourselves rather than "share" with random asshats on the internet who don't understand that "free" does not mean public domain. Nice job blaming the victim for the crime, you are a major part of the problem.