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i found 3 more webpage reposting mods

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/minecraft/mods/ArchitectureCraft/

link 2

http://www.minecraftxl.com/category/minecraft-mods/

By the way softonic should be added as malware alert becuase it fried freinds old computer when he downloaded reposted mods from there

https://en.softonic.com/downloads/minecraft-mod

Quote from Robijnvogel»

Well, that is Greg Ewing's personal mod development page. You know? The original developer of ArchitectureCraft and StargateCraft?

No i did not but but i do now. oh and Softonic is still a Mod repost and its Maliware when you download make sure that ones added to the blacklist marked as Malware alert to

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Both of those are already on the list. Have you even installed the StopModReposts plugin?

not when i replied to this but i just did last night i will be hunting for new websites to add to the blacklis for stopmodrepostst.

I think i found one http://minecraftsix.com/

It's 2018 and these reposting sites STILL exist? Jeez.

They don't only exists, they keep showing up at the top in google when searching for mods. Really annoying and even more so when trying to see if there is a mod for 1.12.2 and there isn't but these crappy sites tell you it is.

I found a Map I made on 9Minecraft, and they even impersonated me on it!

Quote from Robijnvogel»

1. 9minecraft is already on the list.
2. It's not an impersonation. They just correctly state that you're the one who made it.
Barely any content page on 9minecraft has been created by the original content creator. It's just people, most of which I assume are staff from 9minecraft itself, copying over content from CurseForge and Planet Minecraft.

I did post my Map to Planet Minecraft, and now I know why I saw it. Thanks for Telling me!

They stole my mod to it's not even a week old

Quote from Robijnvogel»

Who did? What mod?

And yes... some of these websites seem to keep a close watch on whatever new mods are uploaded to sites like CurseForge and then simply copy those, yet there's not a lot you can do about it, sadly. If the website that is rehosting your mod is not on the list yet, please report it, so the browser plugin will blacklist it.

my silmarillion mod every website thats allready on the blacklist it's so heartbreaking that they do this

I would like to have a website that has rehosted my mod removed from Google Search. I would use this form from Google for this.

My questions to you:
-Has anyone of you ever had experience with it?
-I'm from Germany and I do not know American copyright very well. Do websites that rehost mods against the will of the creator violate American copyright law? Of course, I am aware that I will not receive legal advice here as from a lawyer. Nevertheless, I would be interested in your opinion.

Quote from Robijnvogel»

1. Software copyright does work a little different from copyright for text and pictures.
2. And there's a big difference between copying large bits of the source code and re-using it for your own profit and re-hosting the compiled mod.
3. Re-hosting the complete mod does not claim author-ship or ownership over the product, it simply re-distributes a file that was free for anyone to download in the first place. It's just a Jerk move because it deprives the original author/owner of add-revenue.
4. The fact that the compiled mod can only work in conjunction with the base game Minecraft, which has its own rules for these "modifications" only further complicates properly copyrighting it.
5. I think the best hopes you have for getting downloads from a source that you control is by uploading your mod to CurseForge, like about 99% of all popular mods does.
6. Closing these other websites down would be very hard to do since it's really hard to point out what legal rule they are breaking. And for every redistributing website we'd take down, another thousand will pop up.

Sorry for being such a downer.

Thanks for the answer - unfortunately I am a bit disappointed, but of course that's not your fault.

It is a shame that the rights of free software developers are not protected. But then that's how it is.

Parts of my mod would work without Minecraft. I use this for testing some functions and would only need to be released with an update. But that wouldn't make sense because of your mentioned 3rd point.

I will soon offer my mod on Curse too.

I think it is less bad if many pages rehost my mod as long as it does not generate the bulk of the downloads. But with one site I've been in contact twice already in recent years, after which they removed the download and added it back a few weeks later. But it is also positive that some sites link to the right source after contacting them which results in higher download rates. So it pays to contact the site operators.

#STOPMODREPOSTS

Has anyone reported their work as stolen to what seems to be 9minecraft's domain registrar? Seems they have a copyright infringement policy: https://publicdomainregistry.com/legal-agreements/#infringement

I don't know if you know about this, but http://minecraft-forum.net has apparently distributed malware, it may be worth checking to see if they also steal mods. Hope this helps.

K thanks I didnt see it so i just was trying to make sure

All the creators of the world say 'thank you' !