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Are you sure they're bundling malware just to pay for hosting? It could be the other way round: they realise GitHub might ban them for pulling that kind of thin

Are you sure they're bundling malware just to pay for hosting? It could be the other way round: they realise GitHub might ban them for pulling that kind of thing, so they host elsewhere. Are the mods generally FOSS? That would enable cleaned-up forks, although in the case of Filezilla this doesn't seem to have happened, which I find somewhat surprising.

madaxe_again 5y ago
No, they’re bundling malware because the sites that host mods are a cesspool, reminiscent of the 90’s warez scene - the downloads are all “type the third word from this page, the second word from this page, then click this sponsored link, then wait in a ‘queue’ where we show you video ads - and then you can download your mod at 20kbps” I’m surprised they don’t split them up into 1.44mb rar archives “for your convenience”.
- jandrese 5y ago
  Those are the mod authors that get super angry when someone bundles their work into a modpack. Luckily the modding community does a pretty good job of rewriting any egregiously bad mods like that to work around such devs.
  - ChoGGi 5y ago
    I'd be upset if you took my work, bundled it in a mod pack that you could be making money off of (ads etc).
    - jandrese 5y ago
      Modpacks typically explicitly disallow making money off of it. You don't even get banner ads in the launcher.
  - MaxBarraclough 5y ago
    In my experience very few, if any, mod communities take a considered approach toward licensing. Whether you're allowed to base a mod on an existing mod is left to guesswork. They're quite unlike the FOSS world in that regard. moddb doesn't even have a section for licence information, unlike, say, GitHub. Modding communities often also take a 'permissive' approach to the copyrights of the base game, but fortunately the publishers are often wise enough not to bother taking action against such mods. A mod like [0] gets to exist despite that, ultimately, it's infringing on the base game's copyrights. [0] https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-invisible-war-esrgan-pack https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-invisible-war-esrgan-pack

madaxe_again 5y ago

No, they’re bundling malware because the sites that host mods are a cesspool, reminiscent of the 90’s warez scene - the downloads are all “type the third word from this page, the second word from this page, then click this sponsored link, then wait in a ‘queue’ where we show you video ads - and then you can download your mod at 20kbps” I’m surprised they don’t split them up into 1.44mb rar archives “for your convenience”.

jandrese 5y ago
Those are the mod authors that get super angry when someone bundles their work into a modpack. Luckily the modding community does a pretty good job of rewriting any egregiously bad mods like that to work around such devs.
- ChoGGi 5y ago
  I'd be upset if you took my work, bundled it in a mod pack that you could be making money off of (ads etc).
  - jandrese 5y ago
    Modpacks typically explicitly disallow making money off of it. You don't even get banner ads in the launcher.
- MaxBarraclough 5y ago
  In my experience very few, if any, mod communities take a considered approach toward licensing. Whether you're allowed to base a mod on an existing mod is left to guesswork. They're quite unlike the FOSS world in that regard. moddb doesn't even have a section for licence information, unlike, say, GitHub. Modding communities often also take a 'permissive' approach to the copyrights of the base game, but fortunately the publishers are often wise enough not to bother taking action against such mods. A mod like [0] gets to exist despite that, ultimately, it's infringing on the base game's copyrights. [0] https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-invisible-war-esrgan-pack https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-invisible-war-esrgan-pack