Jump to content

Nexusmods has updated its terms of use (see details in spoiler)

plutocene

By plutocene,
in General Discussion

Recommended Posts

plutocene

plutocene

Posted
Posted
Spoiler

Terms and conditions update

We have updated our Terms and Conditions. By continuing to use Nexus Mods and its services you agree to these new Terms and Conditions.

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE. IN PARTICULAR PLEASE NOTE THE LICENCE YOU ARE GIVING UNDER THE SECTION RIGHTS YOU ARE GIVING US TO USE MATERIAL YOU UPLOAD. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS YOU MUST DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT.

What's in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website https://www.nexusmods.com/ (our site).

Who we are and how to contact us

https://www.nexusmods.com/ is a site operated by Black Tree Gaming Limited ("We"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 06360077 and have our registered office at Southernhay Studios Dean Clarke House, Southernhay East, Exeter, England, EX1 1AP. Our main trading address is Southernhay Studios Dean Clarke House, Southernhay East, Exeter, England, EX1 1AP. Our VAT number is 107473914.

We are a limited company.

To contact us, please email support@nexusmods.com.

Our site strives to provide its users with services and information that facilitate the discussion and distribution of user-submitted video game modifications ("mods") and other video game related digital media.

By using our site you accept these terms

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

By using our site, you hereby represent that you are aged 18 or older, or that you are aged 13 or older and do so with the consent of a parent or legal guardian.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

If you subscribe for premium membership from our site, our Terms and conditions of supply will apply to the sales.

We may make changes to these terms

We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. Please see the bottom of this page for the date these terms were last updated.

We may make changes to our site

We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our users' needs and our business priorities.

We may suspend or withdraw our site

With the exception of premium membership, our site is made available free of charge. Accordingly, we may withdraw, suspend or restrict your access to our site (including by deleting any account you may have) at our discretion.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons or because you are in breach of any of our terms, including additional terms referred to in these website terms and conditions. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal however we are not required to do so.

If we withdraw, suspend or restrict your access to our site that may also apply to content uploaded by you.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

We may transfer this agreement to someone else

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens.

Your account details

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

Households or facilities from which multiple users (and therefore accounts) may access the sites and services are encouraged to inform staff to ensure that there are no potential misunderstandings in the case of moderation review. More information can be found in our Moderation Policy.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at support@nexusmods.com. In the event of you losing access to your account, your email address is the only method that can be used to reclaim your account.

By creating a Nexus Mods account, you acknowledge that we may send email to the address associated with your account with important information regarding your account, as well as our services and policies.

When creating an account on our services, the username you choose must be appropriate for all audiences (i.e. be free of profanity). Accounts registered with inappropriate usernames will be subject to an immediate ban.

Avatar and signature images shall comply with the site rules. If you are using links in your signature or on your profile page, please make sure that content featured on the linked website or webpage conforms to our requirements. Ensure that any animated images you would like to use as your avatar do not contain excessively involved animations that can be construed as overly distracting. We reserve the right to remove animated avatars at our sole discretion.

Users are able to permanently delete their account using the feature found on the ‘Security’ section of your account settings. More information on the deletion process, deleted data, and best practices can be found in our Account Deletion Guidelines.

How you may use material on our site

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged (except where the content is user-generated).

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

In the interest of upholding our community standards when it comes to etiquette, we ask you to abstain from interacting with user-submitted content that you do not find to your liking, rather than engaging in active disparagement of content you disapprove of.

Attempting to download files or otherwise record data offered through our services (including but not limited to the Nexus Mods website and the Nexus Mods API) in a fashion that drastically exceeds the expected average, through the use of software automation or otherwise, is prohibited without express permission. Users found in violation of this policy will have their account suspended.

Do not rely on information on this site

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

User-generated content is not approved by us

This website includes information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

How to complain about content uploaded by other users

Please see our Reporting Guidelines.

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

Whether you are a consumer or a business user:

  • We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
  • Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any products to you, which will be set out in our Terms and conditions of supply.

If you are a business user:

  • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
  • We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
    • use of, or inability to use, our site; or
    • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
  • In particular, we will not be liable for:
    • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
    • business interruption;
    • loss of anticipated savings;
    • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
    • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user:

  • Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

How we may use your personal information

We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy.

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our File Submission Guidelines and any other relevant policies.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

We have a strict anti-piracy policy and will take proactive action against anyone whose on-site activity gives us reasonable grounds to believe they are using pirated content such as, but not limited to, games and software. Discussing, promoting or distributing such content on our sites will be met with administrative action.

Content deemed illegal by English law, including but not limited to pornographic depictions of sexual violence, indecent depictions of minors, bestiality, necrophilia, etc., is strictly prohibited and will result in administrative action and when appropriate, notification to the proper authorities.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant:

  • us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties; and
  • other users of our site a limited licence to use that content for their own recreational purposes only.

The rights you license to us are described in Rights you are giving us to use material you upload.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Forum and Commenting Guidelines.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We do not store terrorist content.

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:

  • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote the site or the service forever;
  • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for our partners and advertisers to use the content for their purposes and in accordance with the functionality of the site forever;
  • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for other users to use the content for their own recreational purposes only and in accordance with the purpose of the site (that is, to enable users to download video game mods for their personal use and enjoyment) forever.

In particular, we may retain your content indefinitely and are not obliged to delete your content if you so request. The rights you grant us continue after this agreement is terminated or your access to the site is withdrawn by us.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out across our various policies.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact support@nexusmods.com.

Which country's laws apply to any disputes?

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Severance

If any provision or part-provision of these terms is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it shall be deemed deleted, but that shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of these terms.

Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2025 Black Tree Gaming Ltd. All rights reserved.

 

Best part is probably that once a file has been uploaded, its their property. Second best, restrict access to the site at any time including account deletion without any reason.

3

NymphoElf

NymphoElf

Posted
Posted (edited)

These things are pretty standard. It's their website, they can do what they want with it.

 

Also, the concept of "ownership" in the modding community has always made me laugh. Making a mod for something like Skyrim inherently requires Skyrim to exist. Therefore any mod made for Skyrim is the effective property of Bethesda whether you like it or not. You're using THEIR tools to make a mod for THEIR game and THEIR game only. You can't use a Skyrim mod on Call of Duty or Halo or Overwatch or whatever.

 

If you don't like how NexusMods does things, then make your own mod hosting website. Compete. Give them a reason to care about what their users think. Otherwise they have literally no reason to care and will do whatever they want.

Edited by NymphoElf
4
Operand

Operand

Posted
Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, NymphoElf said:

Also, the concept of "ownership" in the modding community has always made me laugh. Making a mod for something like Skyrim inherently requires Skyrim to exist. Therefore any mod made for Skyrim is the effective property of Bethesda whether you like it or not. You're using THEIR tools to make a mod for THEIR game and THEIR game only. You can't use a Skyrim mod on Call of Duty or Halo or Overwatch or whatever.

 

Hmm... As a modder I'm not sure I agree with this 100%
There are some reasonable points in it, but as a modder I want to be able to remove things from the platform if I no longer want them to be distributed. It's not that it is illegal to deprive me from this right - it's simply that many modders after seeing that they indeed can lose control of their stuff - will opt to not go with the platform.

 

Since Nexus also makes some money on those things, if they annoy a big enough creator, they also risk something like a Class Action. Sure - it might never happen but introducing controversial rules like they have increases the risk of it happening. The fact that mods need games to function changes nothing here. After all, Nexus has also nothing to do with said games, so they are on absolutely equal ground with modders in relation to games and their devs. On that note - I can probably go as far as compare this move from Nexus to the now infamous move from Adobe. Sure, Adobe tried to directly claim IP rights, but what Nexus tries to do isn't that far off. After all - if you get banned with no explanation and you have triple digit popular files that generate them traffic (and money), isn't it similar? Because you become an author with no rights over your own creations - at least on that platform.

 

PSA: on "this is standard practice"

-- 1: it is standard because it is rarely - if ever - challenged in real courts

-- 2: no EULA or TOS will ever supersede relevant local legislation (in crude terms: you cannot demand human sacrifices in your EULA and expect it to be respected and/or legal)

-- 3: "just because something is doesn't mean it should be" (c) Eorlund Graymane

Edited by Operand
NymphoElf

NymphoElf

Posted
Posted (edited)

@Operand I actually agree with many of your points, but when you're dealing with a monopoly it doesn't matter. If enough people comply, then your opinions don't matter.

 

I would love to see a competitor rise up against nexus to make things fair again, but until that day comes, complaining about it won't change anything. After all, who else is there to turn to for mods?

Edited by NymphoElf
Reginald_001

Reginald_001

Posted
Posted (edited)
24 minutes ago, NymphoElf said:

@Operand I actually agree with many of your points, but when you're dealing with a monopoly it doesn't matter. If enough people comply, then your opinions don't matter.

 

I would love to see a competitor rise up against nexus to make things fair again, but until that day comes, complaining about it won't change anything. After all, who else is there to turn to for mods?

moddb is huge and has a fallout4 section. And it's been around far longer than Nexus. 

 

https://www.moddb.com/games/fallout-4/mods

 

Small caveat: No adult modding and they currently have no real fo4 mod catalog to speak of.

But since that will soon be in the past for Nexus too, they will be on equal ground.

 

  

Edited by Reginald_001
1
NymphoElf

NymphoElf

Posted
Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Reginald_001 said:

But since that will soon be in the past for Nexus too

 

You have absolutely no way of knowing that, and that would be a massive shot in the foot for Nexus. Adult mods are a substantial percentage of their Skyrim mods, which in turn are a substantial percentage of all mods they host. I would wager at least 30% of all mods on Nexus are Adult mods, and that's a low estimate. Removing NSFW mods would drive away the user base they've relied on for over 12 years. That would effectively kill the website.

 

(Ok after doing the math as far as sheer mod count, the 30% guess is quite inaccurate. But it will be more impactful than the raw numbers would suggest)

 

Also, there's a reason NexusMods overtook Moddb despite Moddb existing prior to Nexus. Moddb isn't a competitor. Moddb has 1.2 Billion lifetime website views at the time of writing, and less than 1 million website visits for the day, whereas Skyrim Special Edition alone has over 9 billion mod downloads on Nexus Mods. It's not even close.

Edited by NymphoElf
1
belegost

belegost

Posted
Posted
5 hours ago, NymphoElf said:

You can't use a Skyrim mod on Call of Duty or Halo or Overwatch or whatever

You can, if you're brave enough.

1
shrtjsrtj

shrtjsrtj

Posted
Posted
6 hours ago, NymphoElf said:

Also, the concept of "ownership" in the modding community has always made me laugh. Making a mod for something like Skyrim inherently requires Skyrim to exist. Therefore any mod made for Skyrim is the effective property of Bethesda whether you like it or not. You're using THEIR tools to make a mod for THEIR game and THEIR game only. You can't use a Skyrim mod on Call of Duty or Halo or Overwatch or whatever.

 

It's technically possible to make certain types of mods for Skyrim and never use anything from Bethesda, there are a lot of third party tools now that you just don't have to. Yes I'm aware how painful it would be to not be able to test in game, but if it's something small or the third party tools are robust enough it's not strictly needed.

 

There was some drama a few years ago with Patreon users porting outfits from sites like Daz3D to Skyrim and charging for it. If push came to shove and Bethesda tried to crack down on it, they probably could have kept going without using any Bethesda software.

NymphoElf

NymphoElf

Posted
Posted (edited)
21 minutes ago, shrtjsrtj said:

 

It's technically possible to make certain types of mods for Skyrim and never use anything from Bethesda, there are a lot of third party tools now that you just don't have to. Yes I'm aware how painful it would be to not be able to test in game, but if it's something small or the third party tools are robust enough it's not strictly needed.

 

There was some drama a few years ago with Patreon users porting outfits from sites like Daz3D to Skyrim and charging for it. If push came to shove and Bethesda tried to crack down on it, they probably could have kept going without using any Bethesda software.

 

But the problem is that the end result is still something only practically usable with a Bethesda-Copyrighted piece of software, namely Skyrim, or more broadly, the Creation Engine. So no matter how much you disjoin everything else, you're still beholden to Bethesda and their Intellectual Property rights. The same concept applies to every other moddable game.

 

The only reason they don't sue or otherwise harass mod developers is because the relationship is mutually beneficial. If the modding scene is good, sales go up. Therefore modders make the developer more money. If that changes, the developer will turn against modders faster than you can say "It Just Works".

Edited by NymphoElf
jouda1212

jouda1212

Posted
Posted
8 hours ago, NymphoElf said:

Also, the concept of "ownership" in the modding community has always made me laugh. Making a mod for something like Skyrim inherently requires Skyrim to exist. Therefore any mod made for Skyrim is the effective property of Bethesda whether you like it or not. You're using THEIR tools to make a mod for THEIR game and THEIR game only. You can't use a Skyrim mod on Call of Duty or Halo or Overwatch or whatever.

 

If you don't like how NexusMods does things, then make your own mod hosting website. Compete. Give them a reason to care about what their users think. Otherwise they have literally no reason to care and will do whatever they want.

I think you are wrong, from many perspectives.

 

Making 3D printed phone holder for VW does not make it property of VW group in any way, even it is usable only in VW cars, and you need use some VW's intellectual properties (their design of desk) as an input.

VW cannot block you to use this 3rd party holder either.

 

Using shovel to build house does not make Wallmart owner of your house either.

 

And legally, in many jurisdictions (include mine), you as an author cannot be stripped from author rights for your content, and similar parts of terms are null and void.

(You can, of course, sell rights to distribute or use. Still you remain author. But "You are using our infrastructure free of charge to distribute content, for which we reserve the right to distribute it permanently" would likely be ruled as a legitimate condition with regard to end user protection.)

 

 

 

4
LokeYourXord

LokeYourXord

Posted
Posted (edited)
7 hours ago, NymphoElf said:

I would love to see a competitor rise up against nexus to make things fair again, but until that day comes, complaining about it won't change anything. After all, who else is there to turn to for mods?

 

There's:

 

  • 3DM Mods (Chinese, but really good website in general, plenty of mods)
  • Ayaka Mods (a bit limited, not my first choice)
  • DEG Mods (my first choice as a competitor, more people just need to start using it)
  • GameMaps Mods (limited to a few games for the most part)
  • LoversLab (we're here, good site but since it is inherently geared and targeted towards 18+, even if there are many non-18+ mods on the site, it is going to be limited by that factor due to its target audience)
  • ModDB (expansive, but kind of outdated and somewhat old imo)
  • ModDrop (limited)
  • NexusMods (topic of contention)
  • ThunderStore (really good, lots of games, active support, definitely my 2nd choice)

 

and a few more that I can't remember right now or that aren't specific (such as Modrinth being for Minecraft only).

 

There certainly are options, it's just that most people sadly don't use them. My choices fall on DEG Mods and ThunderStore, which is also where I look first before going for NexusMods.

 

So if y'all want alternatives, like myself, start using the sites I listed above, and upload to DEG Mods, like I did with mine. This is how we change things, and that's the only way.

Edited by LokeYourXord
1
belegost

belegost

Posted
Posted (edited)
27 minutes ago, LokeYourXord said:

There certainly are options

And I don't trust a single one.

The only reason I have Nexus account is because when I created it, it was still a very small, niche and obscure website that nobody has heard about and internet was still largely a Wild West.

The reason I have LL account is because it still has that spark of freedom that whole of Internet used to have before it became corporised.

Edited by belegost
3
NymphoElf

NymphoElf

Posted
Posted
45 minutes ago, jouda1212 said:

Making 3D printed phone holder for VW does not make it property of VW group in any way, even it is usable only in VW cars, and you need use some VW's intellectual properties (their design of desk) as an input.

VW cannot block you to use this 3rd party holder either.

 

Using shovel to build house does not make Wallmart owner of your house either.

 

We're talking about fundamentally different things.

 

If a mod can only be used for one game, then the developer of that game fundamentally has legal jurisdiction over that mod because you're dependent on their IP. The abstracted concepts within it? No. But the actual mod itself is technically the property of the original game's developer because it's strictly dependent on the developer's game. Your mod is effectively an extension of their intellectual property. To reiterate on the Skyrim example, the plugin files literally have Elder Scrolls Master (ESM) and Elder Scrolls Plugin (ESP) extensions, which are proprietary file types and therefore the IP of Bethesda.

 

No, your model you made in Blender doesn't belong to Bethesda. No, your armor textures don't belong to Bethesda. But that plugin you made in Creation Kit to add the armor to Skyrim? THAT belongs to Bethesda.

 

That's all I meant.

1
Wandering_Mania

Wandering_Mania

Posted
Posted
11 hours ago, plutocene said:

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

Well, their not starting to sound like Visa, Master Card, PayPal, and all the other payment processors that are pressuring Steam into full on 'Dictator censorship mode'.

Good lord. What in the hell happened to make the world think 'North Korea like Dictatorships' are a 'good idea'?

2
DrSeptimus

DrSeptimus

Posted
Posted
2 hours ago, LokeYourXord said:

 

There's:

 

  • 3DM Mods (Chinese, but really good website in general, plenty of mods)
  • Ayaka Mods (a bit limited, not my first choice)
  • DEG Mods (my first choice as a competitor, more people just need to start using it)
  • GameMaps Mods (limited to a few games for the most part)
  • LoversLab (we're here, good site but since it is inherently geared and targeted towards 18+, even if there are many non-18+ mods on the site, it is going to be limited by that factor due to its target audience)
  • ModDB (expansive, but kind of outdated and somewhat old imo)
  • ModDrop (limited)
  • NexusMods (topic of contention)
  • ThunderStore (really good, lots of games, active support, definitely my 2nd choice)

 

and a few more that I can't remember right now or that aren't specific (such as Modrinth being for Minecraft only).

 

There certainly are options, it's just that most people sadly don't use them. My choices fall on DEG Mods and ThunderStore, which is also where I look first before going for NexusMods.

 

So if y'all want alternatives, like myself, start using the sites I listed above, and upload to DEG Mods, like I did with mine. This is how we change things, and that's the only way.

 

For all these competitor to even stand a chances to compete against nexus, they must first exist at search engine. If you use google or bing search engine, those site doesn't even show up at all unless you type in the exact site name.

 

Also, most of them either have terrible UI, poor download/upload speed or filled to the brim with advertisement.

1
grosaprap

grosaprap

Posted
Posted
15 hours ago, plutocene said:
  Hide contents

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our File Submission Guidelines and any other relevant policies.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

We have a strict anti-piracy policy and will take proactive action against anyone whose on-site activity gives us reasonable grounds to believe they are using pirated content such as, but not limited to, games and software. Discussing, promoting or distributing such content on our sites will be met with administrative action.

Content deemed illegal by English law, including but not limited to pornographic depictions of sexual violence, indecent depictions of minors, bestiality, necrophilia, etc., is strictly prohibited and will result in administrative action and when appropriate, notification to the proper authorities.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant:

  • us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties; and
  • other users of our site a limited licence to use that content for their own recreational purposes only.

The rights you license to us are described in Rights you are giving us to use material you upload.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Forum and Commenting Guidelines.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We do not store terrorist content.

Rights you are giving us to use material you upload

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant us the following rights to use that content:

  • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by the website and across different media including to promote the site or the service forever;
  • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for our partners and advertisers to use the content for their purposes and in accordance with the functionality of the site forever;
  • a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence for other users to use the content for their own recreational purposes only and in accordance with the purpose of the site (that is, to enable users to download video game mods for their personal use and enjoyment) forever.

In particular, we may retain your content indefinitely and are not obliged to delete your content if you so request. The rights you grant us continue after this agreement is terminated or your access to the site is withdrawn by us.

 

Best part is probably that once a file has been uploaded, its their property. Second best, restrict access to the site at any time including account deletion without any reason.

 

No. That is not what is said. What is said is the same deal that has been in place since before the whole 'modpocalypse' happened way back when they said that you can no longer throw a temper tantrum ala Arthmoor and delete your mods off their site fucking over everyone else. You are not transferring ownership to them. You are granting them the right to host the file and making that right irrevocable. As others have said this is standard boilerplate text for pretty much ANY site hosting user generated content. 

 

I appreciate your efforts to inform the community but this is being chicken little.

Reginald_001

Reginald_001

Posted
Posted (edited)
15 hours ago, NymphoElf said:

These things are pretty standard. It's their website, they can do what they want with it.

 

Also, the concept of "ownership" in the modding community has always made me laugh. Making a mod for something like Skyrim inherently requires Skyrim to exist. Therefore any mod made for Skyrim is the effective property of Bethesda whether you like it or not. You're using THEIR tools to make a mod for THEIR game and THEIR game only. You can't use a Skyrim mod on Call of Duty or Halo or Overwatch or whatever.

 

If you don't like how NexusMods does things, then make your own mod hosting website. Compete. Give them a reason to care about what their users think. Otherwise they have literally no reason to care and will do whatever they want.

 

Kittenvox voiced Ivy. Her voice, her assets, everything about her is her copyright. 

And whomever claims ownership will hear from our lawyers.

 

Courts will decide.

 

This is why we did not upload to Nexus. Our lawyers checked the EULA and told us 'DO NOT UPLOAD TO NEXUS'.

So I pulled everything and never went back.

I still have 300.000+ downloads for Ivy.

 

Nexus are thieves and they can go #$%^#$..

 

Not only that, by uploading to Nexus you agree to all your mods to become part of their 'modpacks' which I have been against since day 1.

 

 

 

  

Edited by Reginald_001
4
grosaprap

grosaprap

Posted
Posted
43 minutes ago, Reginald_001 said:

 

Kittenvox voiced Ivy. Her voice, her assets, everything about her is her copyright. 

And whomever claims ownership will hear from our lawyers.

 

Courts will decide.

 

This is why we did not upload to Nexus. Our lawyers checked the EULA and told us 'DO NOT UPLOAD TO NEXUS'.

So I pulled everything and never went back.

I still have 300.000+ downloads for Ivy.

 

Nexus are thieves and they can go #$%^#$..

 

Not only that, by uploading to Nexus you agree to all your mods to become part of their 'modpacks' which I have been against since day 1.

 

 

 

  

And again no one is actually claiming your copyright if you upload to NexusMods. They weren't then and they aren't now.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...