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End of the story? It seems not, considering people like yourself continue to pop from the shadows to champion it. Owners can create multiple private channels on a Discord. They can obscure them from even moderation staff if they wish. Perhaps they did this to you, as they seem to have done your fellow promoters coming here to stand up for them?The amount of bs and fantasies ppl like to spread around at the first chance never stop to amaze me.
The f95 discord server, which never had any affiliation with f95 but was called like that as a reference for the ppl who use this forum, it always been opened to literally everybody. And that's because it has absolutely nothing to hide/illegal, and for the records It didn't have neither KK, no vam, just hs1/2 mods.
Instead of wearing your tinfoil hat and spreading misinformations, would be better to talk and ask directly to the moderators. The reason it went off for a few days was for "copyright infringment", and "not related to mods". Mods cannot have any kind of copyrights cause 99.9% of the times they're recycled asset from other games. Make your researches if u don't know about it.
The only one who can hold such rights are the games producers.
Said game producers can file a report or a cease and desist usually when u're trying to make money out of them.
Which hironically they could do 'at any time' to almost every modder out there.
But luckly for them they don't seems to care much atm.
If instead the mods are shared for free it stay within the 'fair use' policy.
Despite Patreon offer a small copyright protection for a few bucks it become legit as long as you're creating asset from scratch.
And this is not the case for almost none modder out there.
Different story is, if I create something from 0 and i 'need to pay' (yes it cost money to own them) to own some copyrights
on my own creations. For instance, just to take a random one, hanmen code his own shaders and sell them on patreon. Potentially he can legit own copyrights on his creations and file a report if someone share them.
Nothing is recycled/stolen there, everything is made from scratch.
That said even discord always allow, in such cases, some time to remove the content that got reported.
End of the story.
Discord does not take down servers unless something VERY BAD is happening using their software. You talk about copyright infringement. Okay. But then you say it's always been open, doing the very same sharing as it always did. Now it is not. That warrants some very serious scrutiny, sir.
You really need to do the math, as I said before. Because until the owner comes forward with proof (and I strongly recommend a truckload of it) showing otherwise, I shall keep my little foil hat right where it is. Anyone who reads this should do the same. I like getting great mods, same as the rest of us. But CP sharing mixed in; that's where I draw the line.