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Stealing Fallout 4 Mods is Still Stealing

It’s great that you can now download Fallout 4 mods for the Xbox One version. Leave it to a few jerks that don’t understand the concept of theft to sully the entire thing.

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Pledius2901d ago

ask for permission to original content creator or let the original content creator know how much you would love to see their mods in the console

just don't steal their content and give an excuse as something like making political statement, doing what Robin Hood has done. It's just simply called stealing even if you glorifie it

jessionpc2901d ago

You talkin about Fallout bro?

..Or somIN else...

Fit me bre

Fit me in the pool

Geekman2901d ago

Yo, word up my nigga. Shit is LIT.

Eidolon2901d ago

Snob, prick, or otherwise.. the creators put time,work, and creativity into their mods and uploading their digital intellectual property, regardless if it's free or not, without permission is equivalent to piracy and is just a ****y thing to do, epsecially claiming it as your own or not even mentioning the creator.

JEECE2901d ago

Is it "their digital intellectual property" though, or is it Bethesda's?

Eidolon2901d ago (Edited 2901d ago )

Most artists, designers, or writers wouldn't have IP if you consider this. Digital artists using software from Adobe or painters using some brand of paint and canvas wouldn't own their art, then. Owning your creation, it being yours and no one elses is also an incentive for creating, if someone can just take it and call it their own without anyone batting an eye, we wouldn't have much in this world.

JEECE2901d ago

@Eidolon
Not the same. Using equipment or tools made/owned by a certain company (i.e. the company that made the paintbrush or canvas) does not give that company rights to your work. If Woody Allen builds a camera, and I use that camera to make a film, I would have the copyright to that film. Unless, of course, that film is an unauthorized sequel to his film Annie Hall, in which case it would be a derivative work, and he could claim the copyright. My question is based on the idea that mods to Fallout 4 are most likely to be considered derivative works based on Fallout 4 itself (which is a creative work, not a tool), so by definition Bethesda would own the copyrights to these mods.

Eidolon2901d ago

You're right, I guess it doesn't qualify for a patent so it's not an IP. But it is still their creative work.. so uploading someone elses work as your own is frowned upon and even Bethesda says for them to file a complaint with DMCA.

Valenka2901d ago

Well-written article and 100% spot-on.

Goldby2901d ago

We should find out all we can about thr person who stole it. Make a mod of them constantly stealing in the game befote getting caught and shove a mini nuke down his throught for "politcal reasons"

JEECE2901d ago

This article assumes that mods are the intellectual property of the creator, but what is the support for that? Creators of works have ownership over derivative works. If I write a story about Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Leia Organa, it is irrelevant how original the story is or how much work I put in; Disney could claim the copyright, because my story is a derivative work. Mods are pretty clearly derivative of the game they are based on, so technically Fallout 4 mods should be Bethesda's intellectual property, not the intellectual property of the creators. In that case, uploading these mods so they'll work on Xbox One would not be stealing from the creators.

I'd love to hear from anyone who can refute this (not being rhetorical here, I legitimately find this interesting, and if someone really knows about copyright law with regard to mods, chime in).

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Fallout 4 – Next Gen Update 2 Notes

A new update is now available for Fallout 4. This update adds the ability to manage your control over graphic fidelity or performance and addresses some further stability and visual issues.

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Tacoboto13d ago

How nice of them to give us more control over graphical settings as a way to *completely* avoid taking accountability for the broken Xbox settings.

bondsmx13d ago

Well, I still crashed like 5 times last night within two hours. So there’s that.

anast12d ago

I had to stop. The game is not good. I'd rather play Skyrim and that game isn't that good either.

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I Think It's About Time We Realize Fallout 4 Wasn't That Bad

Ahmed from eXputer: "2015's Fallout 4 received harsh criticism upon launching, but I think it was unwarranted and the game deserves more praise than it got."

helicoptergirl18d ago

It was totally that bad. I couldn't finish the campaign it was so bland and boring as I recall. Got so sick of it. 1000 stimpaks on hard. It is very rare that I play half a game and then just quit. I usually always finish it. But i was so bored with this game I just stopped and never went back and never regretted it. Just thinking about that game makes me shudder

Furesis18d ago

That's exactly what happened to me too lmao
Fallout 4 is not a fallout game period it's a bethesda game

Vits18d ago

The comparison with Skyrim is mind-boggling. Yes, Skyrim has streamlined many of the systems that Morrowind introduced. However, it did not tamper with the core of the Elder Scrolls franchise; it did not diminish the freedom and sense of exploration that made Bethesda RPGs famous. Fallout 4, on the other hand, did exactly that to the Fallout series. It eliminated what made Fallout such a beloved series to play. There are no consequences for your choices, no reason to explore, and barely any interesting set pieces in the game.

It's not terrible, but it's a painfully mediocre game in a franchise that typically doesn't produce such mediocrity. So that is why people see it as bad, the bar is just much higher.

anast18d ago

They both feel the same because they are, it's just that one has swords and magic and the other has swords and guns.

anast18d ago

I'm replaying it now. It sucks. I'm about 30 hours in and thinking about quitting again. I am so tired of the dialogue I just spam a random button because it doesn't matter. The upgrade just feels like a graphical mod, everything else is not good.

Good-Smurf18d ago (Edited 18d ago )

I couldn't play the game as-is it was insanely boring and grindy and the grind itself are not fun at all.
Mods helped me stomach the game a bit better but after a while I just stopped playing and uninstalled it because the game did nothing after the first few hours to give me any motivation to keep playing it, it just became a mindless looter shooter with obsession in settlement building and defending.
Compared to F3 and FNV, F4 was barely a mediocre game it wasn't bad but it's also very forgettable entry.

MrDead18d ago

It's not that bad after 300+ mods that fix it's issues and make the game fun... but lets not talk about mods right now as they are f****d.

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Interview on Fallout 4 with the Actor for Nick Valentine, Codsworth & Mr Handy (Stephen Russell)

Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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