Leeched Modifications

[Muggy]

I have started this thread so you can
report any mods you made being found
on other sites with somebody else
claiming authorship.

I will start the ball rolling by showing
an Unlimited View Distance mod
reportedly made by Patrikstar666
from a site called mafiamods.com



The top image is a screenshot from our own downloads
of my Optimized Mafia.

I downloaded the one from mafiamods.com and opened up the readme
as you can see all this person has done is to remove my username.

If you too have found mods falsely hosted please
report here.. btw this is for mods that are primarily
hosted on Mafia Scene.

There is not much I guess can be done but to contact
the moderators for sites and politely request they acknowledge
authorship or that they remove said files from their site.
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[Mr Robville]

This is something important to look into, no matter what mod of what size.
I'm all too familiar with scumbags like this who blatantly ripped my name off something that I made and claimed it to be theirs. In pretty much all occasions, contacting the administrator of the site with a friendly email did the trick, usually resulting in the offending content being removed and the associated account being permabanned. So my advice is, contact mafiamods to request a removal and provide whatever evidence you have of its origin. The fact that you are an admin of this website should usually be enough insurance to grant you some credibility, should they have any doubts.
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            www.Robville.net

[Muggy]

mafiamods.com originally was started by
one of our former members who was also
a former admin from the days of our former
site lostheaven[dot][co][dot][uk]

For a while we worked together with them, but
then rivalry set in. Whether this site is the return
of Mafia Mods I have no idea.

There is no indication of who the admins are
and no option to contact who is in charge.
Tbth it looks rather suspicious to me as
there are no rules for the site whatsoever
-take a look for yourself
mafiamods.com

if you look through the mods for Mafia CoLH
you will also find Water Shader Mod by Mr F
on there a certain worm called Raider199 is
claiming authorship. Unfortunately Mr F has
not re-registered on MS so I can't contact
him to notify about this.. If anyone knows
Mr F and is in contact please tell him about
this:
Water Shader Mod on mafiamods.com
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[Mr Robville]

That website does indeed look quite isolated regarding any contact info. However, I came past this address: admin@vgmods.net
The site seems to be part of a chain of modding sites, all hosted by VG mods, but individually managed by whoever wanted to take charge. I guess if you contact them and explain the situation, they might forward it to the admin in charge. So even though it is/was run by a former staff member of MS, VG mods apparently holds the real ownership.
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            www.Robville.net

[Muggy]

I have sent an email requesting the removal
of UDD Mod which incidentally is actually the
name of the patch created by GOLOD55 -
I acknowledged the use of the UDD patch
to GOLOD55 and he had no problem when
I made Optimized Mafia back in 2007.

Anyway here is what I said; and no I did
not use any colourful language or *expletive deleteds*

[Muggy]

Well that was quick and a result
I received an email in the
evening yesterday.

[huckleberrypie]

I know the DMCA can be a bane for us content creators, but it can also be of some benefit to us assuming that the site abides by that law and thus has a DMCA policy of some sort. Heh, even sites that facilitate piracy like torrent trackers do have one and would comply if a publisher takes umbrage at their works being uploaded illicitly.