Kanarus Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 (edited) I was just wondering they have it plastered in big bold red not to post any mods on their site to the Nexus yet they seem to have mods posted to their site that are from Nexus. My Question is am I the only one who feels this is highly hypocritical? Edited March 1, 2013 by Kanarus
jet4571 Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 (edited) Not really if the do not post at nexus is because the content of the mod would recieve a ban here. and yeah a ton of copyright violations there lol Edited March 1, 2013 by jet4571
SineWaveDrox Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 I'm not sure if I'd call it hypocritical. They just be trying to protect their users. I just took a brief look at the site, and they appear to have a number of mods available that make use of illegal rips from other games. Posting such mods on the Nexus would likely result in a ban. Even posting images of them on the Nexus can result in a ban. As such, taking into account that people tend to not read the rules that they agree to when they sign up for things, their demand that people not post the mods from that site to Nexus is possibly just an attempt to keep their members from being banned from here.
Kanarus Posted March 1, 2013 Author Posted March 1, 2013 You got a point there I've seen a bunch of mods there that are taken from games that they would never have gotten permission from the companies to use the textures/meshes
jet4571 Posted March 2, 2013 Posted March 2, 2013 I believe that website is blacklisted here and what some people will call "site that cannot be named", you might want to change the title of this thread to something more innocent like "Question about another mod site". Atleast you didnt link to it which would get a moderator to edit your post at the very least.
Hairballtea Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 This is a valuable thread and I think the title is correct as this is the forum and discussion so long as it is not abusive is ok. I agree that and other site's lie SL? have ton's of ripped content and other problem's, the Nexus being so bit that make's it a target that these smaller site's might be able to duck under but you can bet that if these mod's appeared here the nexus would find itself in court so though the moderator's sometimes seem to go over the top in reality they are the reason this site still exists, it was not always like this but the old nexus was much-much smaller were today it is both the premium gaming mod site and very much on the radar of copyright lawyers. It is sad in some ways though as there are some really nice mod's on these and other including Asian site's. The real problem for us as gamer's though it we may innocently download something then think it look's cool so we then post a screenshot only to find out it is ripped content, there is a paucity of modern clothing mod's for Skyrim, not all of us are lore fan's thinking Skyrim could do with spicing up and so some of us go searching but this mean's we run the gauntlet of what is acceptable and what is not, the real problem we have not played all the games in the world so we may think something is original only to then be told it is a ripped mod from a game we have never heard of and I have run foul of this in the past but was thankfully informed by a fellow member deleting my image, fairy tale which was ripped I gather from another game. So two of the problem with black listed site's are. We may innocently visit them and download something not knowing it is copyright breach. We may upload screenshot's which though the nexus does not host the mod may still get the nexus a threatening letter from the copyright holder of the material in our screenshot. Copyright material is often also work and pay's salaries so it is taking the bread out of someone mouth or robbing someone of there investment literally and to steal there work in that way as we all know is wrong but even when it is not paying work it is still the hard work of someone who simply wanted to share there work with other's so when someone then steal's it that is just plain wrong as well, we all know though sometimes the copyright holders of some long dead game's like vampire the masquerade can be unreasonable such as the case with project Vauldery a fan made recreation using the unity engine that will now not see the light of day (At least with anything still recognizable as VTMB)) as a game company in Iceland called CCP game's wrote them a cease and desist letter, yet they have no plans on a VTM game either but own the IP so?, apparently they have shut down a few game's including MMO's by acquiring or already owning the IP though like in the case of VTMB they do not own the game or it's asset's, indeed that is a problem as no one seems to know who does. All this mean's that the Nexus could be sued by some killjoy lawyer who actually does not know the game simply because someone posts an image, it is more conceivable than you would think and because the nexus is so large they do look at this site, without the moderator's therefore we would not have this site at all and personally I can not imagine how they keep track of all the game's.
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