Sometimes even having such mods being sold " à la carte", i.e, after someone privately expressing what is desired (and willing to pay for it), such content would be built, as requested, with stuff from different origins/sources. Sometimes openly in the bigger websites (I recall a few in the defunt BHMS). Sometimes shared between people in closed places behind a user register access. There used to be people that would rip original content, be it from modders or from commercial game titles, be it "straight conversions" to other platforms, or mixxed mongrels deliberately made with parts of different origins/sources. Some more underground and private, others not really so. There have been many "Sim Dreams" over the years. unfortunately, this is not something new, nor isolated.Īnd sadly it needs to involve money and, it seems, popular media/channels (and silly copyright strikes!) to have the "ripped content in games and mods" subject getting attention from users. It takes courage to speak the truth on touchy subjects sometimes, but I'm sure you felt it was worth being done, risks be damned. Have nice (Simracing604): I'd like to say thank you, for bringing the subject up. If you defend this kind of practice, you're just as bad as the person doing it and should be outed for it too, which in all honesty, it kinda sounds like you're borderline supporting SDD for stealing content they played absolutely no role in creating and have zero right to slap a price on it whatsoever. Sometimes one person can't perfectly do what another could, and sometimes one person can perfect a near-perfect mod if it exists as opposed to doing it from scratch.īUT! If you're the type of person that takes a complete mod that was provided for free and slaps a price on it and then proceeds to strike/dmca the original author of the content, you're no less than the worst kind of scum on the planet, and regardless of whether it's copyright or not, you just shouldn't do this.Įdit: They don't even credit the original authors either, it's like adding insult to injury. I think you'd find most developers that post free mods are actually pretty happy for people to download, modify and re-upload their mods for free.
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