Concerning the New Layout

An edit from the previous:

A friend translated the legal agreement to Russian for me and it is now available!

Hello my fellow people. Things have settled down a lot around here and it is great. Makes focusing on what to do and how to do things better. Now I am normally not one to make such kind of threats such as the one I made on the previous post about continuing my exploitations as long as you guys continue to harass me about my choice, but nonetheless, it was something I felt done because some of you could not be mature about my actions and insisted to bug me.

Now there has been no final word if Desu will or won't be uploading her mods, but as some of the people who have contacted me, is that my choice of waiting is a good choice because her past shows us she will more than likely not pull through. Me and a fellow pointed out pros and cons, and truth and facts on her and my exploitations and ofcourse as I pointed out there are things wrong about what I do, but I have made my choice: I am not taking the mods down until I have final word from her in my email that she has put them back up. Why my email? because then no one can pose as her. I know her email address, so it's going to be impossible to pose as her to protect her...unless you hack her email account to email me, but that crosses the line of mod-ethics here. I am not going around invading peoples privacies to do what I want.

Anyways, enough of that. Anyone else sick of reading about this dispute as much as I am? I am sick of typing the same points over and over again just reworded. If you don't understand what I am talking about then it is not your place to be to argue.

As I am sure everyone noticed (for the commoners of my blog) I re-did the layout. Things started getting messy so I decided to to reorder things to make things cleaner and more eye appealing. Now on the left side you will find 2 nav links. One links to the page where I list all the mods I have exploited and the other links to the "legal" agreement (which states what I am doing and makes a request that I hope you follow). This way you guys don't have to download that agreement anymore, you can just read it online. I would actually prefer you read it online because it is more up to date, plus I am hoping to get a fellow friend right a russian translation of it, and over time I am hoping to collect it in a few different languages. I feel I can pay back the Korean modding community since they are the ones who provided all of Desu's mods for me in the first place, so I hope a fellow Korean will translate the legal agreement for me :)

Also on the download page I put a little slide show to help add to Desu's image works. The slideshow showcases all of the mods I have exploited, and as of right now, all that I have exploited are Desu's mods, so you get to see that on the Download page.

Also, on the right hand side of the site you will also find a search to search my blog for something specific - you know, if I said something stupid in the past and you wish to use that against me just use the nifty little search box to find it. Also I put a translator for my fellow foreigners. Not everyone can read english, and not every Englishman can read other languages, so I put a little translator there. Just copy specific lines of text and paste them in the text field, then select the language you wish to translate it to and click translate and like magic Google will give you a rough translation of it - it is up to you at that point to translate the rough translation into a much easier to understand translation.

So, I hope you like it. I am hoping to host my own mods here soon, once all the fire and ect has ended.

But, until then, there is no other news to report, so I hope you guys have a good rest of summer for those of you enjoying being out of school, as for the workforce who doesn't get out for summer...well...I hope you atleast enjoy your days.

The Last Post...well..maybe...

It's nice not being flamed for once. I understand why some of you are angry, and I can understand where Desu herself is coming from...though quite personally, after I left Oblivion I gave free rights to let people do whatever they want to the mods I made. As one of the posters say: Mods were meant for enjoymentl; throw too much of this "legal" stuff in and it's just not fun, or enjoyable anymore.

I am gone from the modding community, so what do I care what happens to my mod? I made a good statement to many about what MY REAL work is and so I am certain those who did enjoy the mods I made will support my work; as for myself; I don't care.

Desu I have a special little end note for you here (and yes it is polite, contrary to my previous statements about you). But I want to quickly start off with a statement from a commenter on my last post:

(the guy quoting me.)

"You risk getting a lawsuit".

Haha. For banning you? You have a lot to learn.

(the guy quoting me again.)

"It is true, there is no real law that protects modders work."

It's called copyright. Bethesda own the rights to ESP and ESM files only. They don't own the rights to user created content such as textures, meshes, animations or storylines and anyone who told you otherwise has no clue what they are talking about. But nice try.

(my response)

Anonymous user; please don't make such swift judgement. My explanation of them getting a law suit is not from me, do you take me as that dumb?

I am not so crazy as to file a law suit over such a trivial matter. In no way have I taken offense to the actual banning.

The lawsuit is that there are crazy people who can take offense to their actions and when they step out of line - as they are a business - they risk getting a lawsuit. (Like there was a lawsuit against McDonalds because a person spilled coffee on themselves and it was hot...people will sue over some of the most dumbest things.)

Secondly, the copywrite law protects peoples own creations. In no way is there a mod that is entirely your own creation except maybe the utilities such as Wrye. However the .esp mods and .esm mods uses Bethesdas creations, so in that sense, we do have permission to use these pieces they have made, we can use their game, their engine, ect so long as it stays inside their game and no other game is put into their game, however, they own full right to a modders creation, not the original author. In your mind you can say you own it in full because you are the creator but that would only be true in a perfect world. Bethesda owns all the mods.

(At this point I forgot to say something and this really bugged me so I made a second response)

lastly; if you read, it was the people fighting me with fire that motivated me to go longer. So, if you are going here to fight me with fire, then what result will you expect in the end? Please read everything before making a judgement. Doctors don't just read half of a patients chart before declaring it is cancer, you should not do the same before declaring I am a beast, and should not try to remedy the situation if you do not know how to fight the situation. If I continue my actions, there is no one to blame but the people who motivate me to continue.

If you come here to remedy the situation, I will give you a hint: Don't use fire to fight this fire.

(Lastly an anonymous user posted on the last topic too - though this one has a much lighter note than the others.)

I thank you for giving me the opportunity of downloading DesuChans mods i really appreciate it ^^

I have no problem with helping you find this wonderful mod; as many others are thankful just like you (I have an inbox with 50+ emails to prove it). Unfortunately, it - apparently - pisses off a certain party that someone is polite enough to say thank you. Where did the civil society go when people feel that manners and politeness are rude and wrong? Infact that has a rather ironic sense to it...that's kind of backwards.Anyways, I have to say; don't thank me.

Lastly, I have my kind hearted message for Desu...unfortunately I tried emailing you but my email just got rejected and bounced back to me...sad day.

I do apologize for being such a prick. Hopefully you have enough sense in you to understand this actually - hopefully most of your hate towards me was because I used poor judgement and threw slander at you based of prejudices gathered second hand from outside parties about you. This was wrong of me to jump to a conclusion about you, and normally I do not make jumps as such about people, but nonetheless, I hope you can atleast forgive me for my slander; and I will agree with you on the ego. Yes, I have a bit of one, but having one is better than not having one at all. I find it better to be happy more often than being sad, so I do what I can to keep my boat afloat.

Anyways, it's good to know this whole thing can come to an end; quite frankly I am tired of it. This whole thing is just more on my already full plate. Still, I have people to take care of so I will not remove the mods until the day your mods are up.

Lastly; since this blog is a free-to-post blog, anyone can respond, you understand this right? Meaning anyone can take anyones name, so you have to understand my distrust as you can be a potential poser. Please do not pull a "Nexus" and deal with matters as such in a public area. Confirm you are desu by making our conversation private.

Anyways, enjoy the mods! and I suppose since the links are now sunk way down this blog: Anyone who is new to my blog know there are some links for DesuChan's Persocoms Reloaded and her other lovely mods in some posts prior to this one, just go back a month.

(sorry Desu - it's business. and will continue to be business until your mods are up; which I eagerly await this day)

Closure

Rejoice fellow haters!

I will be closing up shop! Now? no. Tomorrow? no. Next week? Doubtable. In A month? More than likely.

There is no solid proof, but I recieved a comment here on the forum from DesuChan. I do not 100% believe it is, but I can say about 85% of me believes it is and she gave word she will be reuploading the mods in about a month. So until that time comes my little business here will be open, but once I get confirmation those mods are up, I will remove her mods from my mediafire.

Don't go getting a big head now, however, it's not because all the flaming and the "moderator" who came here is the reason I am closing down. No, quite the contrary, the words you guys said motivated me to keep it open longer quite frankly. When you fight fire with fire, you only get worst results: keep that in mind children.

No, instead I talked to a fellow friend of mine on the Official forums. They're open expression of their thoughts on mod exploitation gave me full closure on accepting that it is time to close down. Surprisingly the conversation wasn't up in flames, it was peaceful and calm - no hate. He understood my side of the story, understood my intentions, ect. He disagreed with what I did, but he did not think it is entirely this terrible thing.

It is true, there is no real law that protects modders work. Technically your work that you make is owned by Bethesda, if you want to be technical about ownership. It is just a courtesy to not steal. Atleast I wasn't making new mods by ripping Desu's stuff from her mods and putting it in my mod without permission and without credit: I still credited her, and I didn't even touch the mod. I did repackage them a little differently so people can also view the "Redistribution Readme" so people understood full and well what they were doing.

Also, a fellow follower said a beautiful line that really sums up this whole situation.

""Please stop distributing mods without permission of the author. Not only is it rude to the author, but stuff like this usually ends up causing modders to leave the community entirely because of inconsiderate jerks like yourself."

This part of your quote is so backwards, I can't believe you actually think like that. IF a mod must be hosted elsewhere outside of the authors preferred methods, it means the author doesn't want it released... which in turn means people already don't have access to the authors mods. Distributing elsewhere shows the author that there is a demand for the mods and people are willing to go through extremes to use said mod. At this point, it is the AUTHOR ruining the community by being so secretive with regards to free mods on a GAME that people simply want to enjoy. People appreciate the work of good authors and want to be able to use their mods, it is retarded to create private mods." ~Accordian

I would wish this could have been handled slightly more civilaly though, nonetheless, it is over.

For those of you who put in a request:

To the anonymous user on post: "A Boost In Popularity"

I am sorry, I am not familiar with the mods in the picture, though the sky looks beautiful. Ask around on the forums, you'll find answers, or I am sure some people here who stalk my blog would be capable of answering.

To Zero who commented on the post: "On The Search"

I did find Friends And Lovers 1.51 in english, however, I am not 100% certain, but I do believe that the original author is still active. The work I do (did) was finding dead mods that are no longer easily accesible due to the original author removing them, and I reupload them.

Lastly, I remember someone mentioning somewhere that reuploading these mods are bad because if the original author updated them the reuploads won't be updated properly.

Yes, well, as mentioned in the above paragraph, I don't take active modders work. DesuChan was no longer an active modder. She removed all her files, and people loved her work. So, I reuploaded them.

So I hope you guys enjoy. I will continue to answer your emails. As for you "LHammond", I would expect more professionalism out of the Nexus to actually take the time to communicate through a more private means. Since this blog is open to anyone being able to post, even if not a blogspot user, I do not believe you are a real moderator. No matter the offense a user has done (unless that person has literally killed your staff) then there is no excuse for a lack of professionalism. Even when I am frustrated at customers I don't retaliate at them with anger. I calmly express my thoughts. Though in this case there is no real means of telling your emotions you put in, as text does not properly convey these emotions entirely. However, in this case I would expect the Nexus to take the time to write an email and send it to me. If you have the ability to know that I have two profiles there is no excuse for you not to know my email that I signed up with to the Nexus.

Please, children, be professional about things!

I will be contacting you, Nexus, to get a real response. I expect it to be done civilized and professional. My response will be as professional as your response should be. And believe me, I don't just say this out of my own frustration. I can tell you that a lack of a professionalism is a good way to loose business and you risk getting a law suit.

Oh, and seriously: This is th elast thing, but people who wish to try to communicate to me about serious matters on my choices who are directly affected by my actions: Please realize this blog is open to anyone to respond; meaning anyone could pose as anyone. So communicate with me in a proper way to show proof it is not a fake so I can either read your words or just fluff you off because I don't believe you are the real person. Remember, on the internet others cannot see your face (unless you are using a webcam).

Take care all and remember to send those emails!