steamtacular Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 What happened to that mod which gave us a working metro network? It's vanished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethjunkie Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 He asked for his account to be deleted for some reason and took all of his mods with him. No idea why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steamtacular Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 Well that sucks for the rest of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overcast73 Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Well that sucks for the rest of us. Yes, it was one I was looking at to add to - but now in hindsight, it just reinforces my original position of not using too many resources I don't have control over like that. Had I made a mod for that, and the original file is now gone - all my work would have been in vain. I think I might have downloaded a copy, but even then, I don't think we can re-post a mod that someone else did can we? I'm not one to even consider 'taking credit' for another's work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRampage Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I don't think we can re-post a mod that someone else did can we? I'm not one to even consider 'taking credit' for another's work.No, not without explicit permission from the original author. (REZ01 in this case) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arewesailingblind Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Well that sucks for the rest of us. ... it just reinforces my original position of not using too many resources I don't have control over like that. Had I made a mod for that, and the original file is now gone - all my work would have been in vain...Yeah, it does reinforce the the line of thought that your mod is best independent of of other authors works, plus a user may be more inclined to download an all-inclusive mod than one that says you need 10+ reference mods downloaded+installed just to get the one you want working. Oh and I really like the metro mod, I have it installed. I'm glad to have downloaded it before it vanished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steamtacular Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 Personally it's always bugged me how people seem to regard mods as their property. Once you put it out there people should be free to redistribute it without your consent so long as they don't change it or pass it off as their own if you're so inclined. Any mods I've done I've always said "Do what you want brah" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phrozin Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Well, it is their content. They put the time and effort for the sum total of $0.00. It bugs me how some people feel entitled to complain about someone exercising their right to stop distribution of their own property. Guess we just missed the free boat. *shrug* You set the conditions of your content to none, while others want some kind of (very minimal) protection. One possible explanation is that they're getting tired of getting a ton of PMs everyday about people asking (or demanding) that they work on their mod to make it compatible with another mod. They've probably moved on to New Vegas or Skyrim and would rather not get PM after PM for Fallout 3 stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaege Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Technically, anything posted to a public forum, like this one, becomes "freeware" and has no legal protection whatsoever. Someone could swoop in grab up all the mods on Nexus and try to sell them as thier own while the actual creators would have no legal recourse. I have seen it happen on another forum I am associated to. Myself, I try to respect the modders desires as far as his/her mod goes, since I appreciate the efforts that they went through to deliver us the mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blove Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 (edited) Unless the author posted it and relinquished their rights they still retain them. Edited May 1, 2012 by blove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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