BeamNG's Broken Mod System (Video Included)

Wait we don't have a copy of your sound pack.

Btw we approved your sound pack also in the first instance and had to remove it afterwards because someone told us that there is copyrighted stuff in it.

 

Well, sorry, my bad. It was just archived and still on the server.

 

Contrary to some rumours, we are also humans.
Mistakes happens. After we noticed some reviews reporting that fact on that mod you are talking about, the guys at the repo took it down and investigated in depth on the thing.

What other people said. The guys at the repo have to check several mods daily, plus helping modders with issues and much more. In this case, working smart is the way to go. Cross-checking a mod with other previous mod is not exactly 'smart-working' as it's extremely time consuming, and the chance of that happening are not that high to justify that.

You didn't (and can't) make a copy-right complaint. Copyright complains are for those who really owns the files (In this case EA).
They could literally sue you for using their content without owning the copyright.
Your pack was removed because it was noticed it contained EA copyrighted content, and we cannot approve that stuff on the repository (The repository is actively moderated, is like BeamNG itself is placing copyrighted content to download). We do what's needed to not make the company and the users run into legal problems.

That mod that went through the checks, that one you are basically blaming the guys is just an exception. This things are very rare compared to what they have the check daily.
Sometimes it's obvious when they see a blatantly copy of another mod, sometimes this stuff is just hidden or not visible on first approach.
As I said in the very first part of this post, we are also humans, and some things can slip from our view.
As soon we have notified about that, the mod was immediately took down and the uploader noticed.


tl;dr

• We are not robots. The mod you are blaming us was a simple 'miss' because the files you are blaming were only a part of the mod. For time/efficiency reasons, we cannot go through all the files of a mod, so we do a general 'check' before approving.
• The mod has been taken down as soon we have been notified about that and the uploader notified aswell.
• Copyrights are a very serious question. We do what's needed to keep our company, and the uploader, away from legal issues related to this.
• The guys at the repo also have other tasks apart 'checking' mods all day, such as 'mod support', 'QA work', helping other users. And they do it greatly.
• Copyright infringement is stealing technically. You cannot make a copyright complaint over content you do not own.

You got overly salty of a simple human mistake that has been solved hours ago.

All the best.

/thread.

 

I was making an example.
Copyright is for who owns the content (EA in this case)

Again, why all this fuzz?
Feels like we are repeating stuff over and over.

Your mod was taken down because it contained copyrighted sounds.
Copyrights stuff is an absolute NO-NO on the repository.
A mod that contained the same sounds made it through by mistake.
It was taken down shortly after we have noticed.

Of course, because you put that out in the worst way to discuss it.
Immediately tagging the whole thing as 'broken' because of this single case may just have been an over-exaggeration, don't you think?
We are always open to suggestions and improvements. Making people mad and etc. is not really what we aim for, so friends like before maybe?

If you can't 'sorry' us for this involuntary accident, then I don't know what..


(Aye, sorry for the multiple edits, wording out the best I can)

 

wow, someone is seriously pissed .... :|

 

Not all people are good-minded sadly.
Seeing that being abused is not a far reality.

There is a report button down every post in this forum, use that if you want to report something, and we will check..

As I wrote in my previous, if you are reading my posts even, hating is the last thing we want.
What caused this reaction from the other members is the way you put the whole thing.
If you had a different approach to it maybe.

Regarding the topic of the thread itself,
you read my post? Are we good now?