Okay, I did admit stealing some mods back when I was active in IV or San Andreas, but that was credited based on whatever mod files that have been made. But on that point, I realized that reuploading someone's work with my own custom edits, even though it's credited to whom it was made, is still tolerable, but somehow a bit disrespectful to the author of the mod. Talk about plagiarism.
That being said, preventing plagiarism in this era of IoT and the upcoming IoE is indeed hard. Avoidable, but hard to get rid of. No one knows that what you made, even though it's your own doing, is a plagiarism against the existing work. Not just the college work for your graduation (Final Project?), but mods too.
So, to start this post, I found one mod by ZiPPO RAID and there's a unique description that directed me to GTAForums thread on where it all started. Don't ask why he used ALL CAPS in the description despite that "i" letter is not capitalized (broke your Caps Lock key, ZiPPO RAID?).
A mod 3 years ago, GTA V Redux, was wiped off the earth because the content was stolen from the original authors of many different mods. To start of this, a guy pioneered in VisualV, _CP_, made a comparison between his mod and the Redux version made by the (American? Or Mexican?) man named Josh Romito. Some values are nearly identical the moment I saw that first page. Before, I saw ZiPPO RAID's post comparing his Raider's Blood (blah blah blah) mod with the GTA V Redux one. NEARLY, identical. Plagiarism much?
A lot of users rant about it and original authors from different mods compared side-by-side between Redux one and theirs. Even newsletters about PC gaming (which eventually was a blatant payoff to the journalists to make his mod popular to the community as a whole) talked about it.
There was a case that was booming before that, about NoClip and Angry Planes mods that carry a hidden malware inside, which eventually damage your PC and had to nuke it; I did talked about it, but no, not this one. I'm still curious, though, who's the frickin' author who made those anyway? Has he been banned in modding community?
Web Archives website (I've seen various people used it) probably be my best bet to go back in time and check "who the hell uploaded this hidden malware?", though... I may gonna use it if there's anything I want to find, especially regarding history of sites I've visited.
Back to topic. Seriously. Newsletters that year (September 2016) was plagued by that mod news about what's up with this Josh Romito guy making a GTA V Redux mod, which was stolen from various authors making their work.
And the legit mod makers like them don't just sit there and do nothing. They fought against him to show who is right. And the winner? The legit mod makers. Interestingly, his account on 5-Mods was banned after that. I have no idea if I can prove it, but from RM76's post, he said,
It's war out there. One man against a modding community. Not to mention what's going on at Syria, but this... it's a frickin' cyber war. One man on an internet, against several thousands, or maybe millions in that GTA modding community specific to GTA V. People have already made comparisons, providing proof that Josh is stealing sh*t from several mod creators, like... "where's your face if you can't take it?"
This is like I'm dealing with new YouTube's terms of rights and the sh*ttiest of all, FTC made YouTube COPPA-compliant. Hell no.
Anyway, the sh*t-stained GTA V Redux mod website is still up today, but not managed by Josh Romeo or whatever, but Daniel Dibbs. "Can I call them dibs when we find them?" - Porter Gage
Seriously, why doesn't make this website vanish anyway? Everyone 3 years ago have been complaining sh*t about it, telling that this is a goddamn stolen content and Josh Rolling Thunder or whatever said, "go f*** yourself." That is not cool, bro. People will just leave anyway to say that it's a stolen content, i.e. you download a mod, you reupload it in a modpack, and claim it as your own.
I quit doing that stuff (download, reupload with my custom data, and put them credits on whoever make it) as forgetting to put one author who make the mod can cause serious issues, and the worst, make the gaming newsletters recognize your mod and make people go crazy downloading it. Kinda wrong tactic, if you ask me, but yeah... you can avoid plagiarism, but it doesn't get completely removed.
Modding is always a work of art. If you have something creative, put it in, not steal from someone's art. There are many ways that it can go down, ranging from data manipulating (editing) to a 3D modeling. It's indeed something that you can have a look at.
Most of my mods I uploaded long ago are my original works, although some use other user's assets with proper credits, of course. And this mod I currently in postpone working, is also original work I wanted to share to someone who can remaster the sh*t out of it; Public beta release.
I wish Josh Rock-n-roll or whatever can learn from his mistakes, but no... he doesn't. He'll be back, and the community will bomb-voting this guy again and again. This can go on until FBI bust him out in the open, or maybe many years to come. Idk.
But well... let's move on, shall we? And I was thinking that probably, probably, I still have the copy of Angry Planes mod that come straight before the download link was gone (let's just hope it's not).
What else we can find on the internet? Dark sides like Dark Web? You'll never know.
That being said, preventing plagiarism in this era of IoT and the upcoming IoE is indeed hard. Avoidable, but hard to get rid of. No one knows that what you made, even though it's your own doing, is a plagiarism against the existing work. Not just the college work for your graduation (Final Project?), but mods too.
So, to start this post, I found one mod by ZiPPO RAID and there's a unique description that directed me to GTAForums thread on where it all started. Don't ask why he used ALL CAPS in the description despite that "i" letter is not capitalized (broke your Caps Lock key, ZiPPO RAID?).
A mod 3 years ago, GTA V Redux, was wiped off the earth because the content was stolen from the original authors of many different mods. To start of this, a guy pioneered in VisualV, _CP_, made a comparison between his mod and the Redux version made by the (American? Or Mexican?) man named Josh Romito. Some values are nearly identical the moment I saw that first page. Before, I saw ZiPPO RAID's post comparing his Raider's Blood (blah blah blah) mod with the GTA V Redux one. NEARLY, identical. Plagiarism much?
A lot of users rant about it and original authors from different mods compared side-by-side between Redux one and theirs. Even newsletters about PC gaming (which eventually was a blatant payoff to the journalists to make his mod popular to the community as a whole) talked about it.
There was a case that was booming before that, about NoClip and Angry Planes mods that carry a hidden malware inside, which eventually damage your PC and had to nuke it; I did talked about it, but no, not this one. I'm still curious, though, who's the frickin' author who made those anyway? Has he been banned in modding community?
Web Archives website (I've seen various people used it) probably be my best bet to go back in time and check "who the hell uploaded this hidden malware?", though... I may gonna use it if there's anything I want to find, especially regarding history of sites I've visited.
Back to topic. Seriously. Newsletters that year (September 2016) was plagued by that mod news about what's up with this Josh Romito guy making a GTA V Redux mod, which was stolen from various authors making their work.
And the legit mod makers like them don't just sit there and do nothing. They fought against him to show who is right. And the winner? The legit mod makers. Interestingly, his account on 5-Mods was banned after that. I have no idea if I can prove it, but from RM76's post, he said,
Exactly.I mean... wut?
The retard's already been banned from 5-mods btw.
It's war out there. One man against a modding community. Not to mention what's going on at Syria, but this... it's a frickin' cyber war. One man on an internet, against several thousands, or maybe millions in that GTA modding community specific to GTA V. People have already made comparisons, providing proof that Josh is stealing sh*t from several mod creators, like... "where's your face if you can't take it?"
This is like I'm dealing with new YouTube's terms of rights and the sh*ttiest of all, FTC made YouTube COPPA-compliant. Hell no.
Anyway, the sh*t-stained GTA V Redux mod website is still up today, but not managed by Josh Romeo or whatever, but Daniel Dibbs. "Can I call them dibs when we find them?" - Porter Gage
Seriously, why doesn't make this website vanish anyway? Everyone 3 years ago have been complaining sh*t about it, telling that this is a goddamn stolen content and Josh Rolling Thunder or whatever said, "go f*** yourself." That is not cool, bro. People will just leave anyway to say that it's a stolen content, i.e. you download a mod, you reupload it in a modpack, and claim it as your own.
I quit doing that stuff (download, reupload with my custom data, and put them credits on whoever make it) as forgetting to put one author who make the mod can cause serious issues, and the worst, make the gaming newsletters recognize your mod and make people go crazy downloading it. Kinda wrong tactic, if you ask me, but yeah... you can avoid plagiarism, but it doesn't get completely removed.
Modding is always a work of art. If you have something creative, put it in, not steal from someone's art. There are many ways that it can go down, ranging from data manipulating (editing) to a 3D modeling. It's indeed something that you can have a look at.
Most of my mods I uploaded long ago are my original works, although some use other user's assets with proper credits, of course. And this mod I currently in postpone working, is also original work I wanted to share to someone who can remaster the sh*t out of it; Public beta release.
I wish Josh Rock-n-roll or whatever can learn from his mistakes, but no... he doesn't. He'll be back, and the community will bomb-voting this guy again and again. This can go on until FBI bust him out in the open, or maybe many years to come. Idk.
But well... let's move on, shall we? And I was thinking that probably, probably, I still have the copy of Angry Planes mod that come straight before the download link was gone (let's just hope it's not).
What else we can find on the internet? Dark sides like Dark Web? You'll never know.
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