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[+] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    They could be copright trolls who are trying to force Steam to do just what they did so they can claim damages for lost revenue on delays on actually legitimate claims. It might be a bet on how well they think they will be able to defend against perjury from the people actually able to sue. Mods aren't like YouTube channels, a lot of them aren't getting a decent revenue stream that they claim they lost or to help them in their defense.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    THIS shit is why Steam continues to dominate the market. I have a healthy wariness of Steam's ubiquity and power within the industry, but they continue to prove that they got it for a reason. Imagine if fucking YouTube treated DMCA trolls this way.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    I'd love to find the original thread the article cites, but their link just leads back to the article.

    i'd like to know which terraria mods.

    edit: killer57 has found the effected mod in the thread below. (Stormdark UI)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Same! I thought the Terraria devs were pretty positive toward the modding community.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don't see any indication that it's the games' developers that are doing this.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Who else would go around filing DMCAs?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    From the info I found, the consensus is it's a troll who found a way to abuse the Steam reporting. Apparently the list of games being hit by these takedowns is huge, like 25+ games.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Then host them somewhere else. Steam is gatekeeping mods; you can't download them if you have the game from somewhere else, except with the cumbersome steamcmd cli tool made for servers.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    I'm confused by this article - Cities Skylines 2 doesn't use the Steam workshop, so how could dmca notices in steam affect it? The article title says CS but the body says CS2.

    Did they mean Cities Skylines 1? Or did they mean dmca notices had been placed on Paradox Mods (which hosts CS2 mods)?

    It feels like this is poor quality misreporting of the situation. On googling it seems to be Steam Workshop so probably Cities Skylines 1?

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