{"id":3322,"date":"2014-07-27T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2014-07-27T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T16:26:07","slug":"promods-upload-their-map-to-another-site-face-jailtime-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2014\/07\/27\/promods-upload-their-map-to-another-site-face-jailtime-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"ProMods &#8211; Upload their map to another site, face jailtime&#8230; wow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I said before, that there&#8217;s certain mods for Euro Truck Simulator 2 like what I&#8217;ve did in 18 WoS PTTM, Haulin&#8217;, and Convoy of expanding or editing the current map.<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s this strange site that seems to stick out like a sore thumb, yet the community there doesn&#8217;t seem to mind it. It&#8217;s called ProMods. And their main bread and butter is this map that they claim they&#8217;ve been working on for two years. That&#8217;s some dedication.<br \/>\nTo get it, you have to make an account. I don&#8217;t get why, but whatever. I&#8217;ve been having to deal with this crap before, that they refuse to show their downloads without you doing an account.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you can only get this map from their site. And here&#8217;s the kicker: If you decide to upload it to another site, they see you as a criminal and actually will prosecute you. Yes, this is what they say when you go to download it, word for word: &#8220;REDISTRIBUTION OF THESE FILES ON OTHER WEBSITES OR FILEHOSTS IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE AND OFFENDERS WILL BE SUBJECT TO LEGAL ACTION&#8221;. Legal action? Criminal offense? <strong>Over a map?<\/strong> No. This isn&#8217;t even legal. They aren&#8217;t allowed to make this kind of statement. It&#8217;s a map the developers of the game gave the tools for.<\/p>\n<p>They can&#8217;t even handle having TSM working alongside their map as a compatibility patch! They go fucking ballistic when they see it being uploaded somewhere else! They&#8217;re so attached to it, it&#8217;s ridiculous. It reminds me&#8230; of myself when it came to my roads on the&#8230;Minecraft server that shall never be mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like, it&#8217;s the future, and one of my old maps is so damn popular, that a website with a strange map-worshiping community cult was created to protect it, like it was a god.<br \/>\nAnd the community, they&#8217;re all &#8220;Are you serious? You created an account just to download this?! But the community! Come! Talk to them! Come say hi to the developers!&#8221;<br \/>\nWow. Just wow. This isn&#8217;t a fucking game, <strong>it&#8217;s JUST A MAP<\/strong>!! But if it needs this much protection, then it has to be a really, really good map.<\/p>\n<p>They claim the reason why they&#8217;re so protective of this map, is the trucksim community has &#8220;low moral values&#8221;. They say people have taken it, did edits, and upload it on their site and claim they did all the work. Yes, I can see how that&#8217;s a problem. But to threaten with jailtime over a fucking map? That&#8217;s not possible. They can&#8217;t legally do that.<\/p>\n<p>But if they were working <em>for<\/em> SCS as a 3rd party map, then yes, I can see why they would have that copyright claim. But from what I saw, this is a fansite and not a legit business. As in, they aren&#8217;t affiliated with SCS in any way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said before, that there&#8217;s certain mods for Euro Truck Simulator 2 like what I&#8217;ve did in 18 WoS PTTM, Haulin&#8217;, and Convoy of expanding or editing the current map. But there&#8217;s this strange site that seems to stick out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2014\/07\/27\/promods-upload-their-map-to-another-site-face-jailtime-wow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}