Once again we see how DRM only punishes paying customers
From the Nexus Mods Discord:
God of War No PSN Requirement Mod
Hi <@&1116364961757790238>
We’ve had several questions from the community about the NoPSSDK mod for God of War Ragnarok which is no longer available on the site.
We would like to clarify this page was removed by the mod author and not by a member of our team.
I’ve reached out to iArtorias to find out what happened, but we suspect that Sony may have requested they remove it as they’ve deleted it from GitHub too.
Pleasantly surprised nexus mods weren’t being goons in this scenario
Hope that mod was forked
I looked around and there do seem to be backups out there, would suggest people download them and reupload them. Same way was done when they tried to go after YouTube-dl.
There was a fork and I’ve found the source code lmao, gonna save it
Where?
I can’t tell you because I don’t want to be sued by Sony but please don’t open this link!
Lemmy might have leaked it with a preview:(
please DO NOT use this magnet link (I unconciously might have put the magnet link you should not use in this comment):
magnet link that you should not use
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:03e752a3cfb3e975179df4a0806eb1ed434400fa&xt=urn:btmh:12203247be5129310b7ec671b2605ed94e6b036ae579de3e239f06465bbdaa8a1fe9&dn=nopssdk-master.zip&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.demonii.com%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.stealth.si%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3a451%2fannounce&tr=https%3a%2f%2ftracker.tamersunion.org%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker1.bt.moack.co.kr%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker-udp.gbitt.info%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fretracker01-msk-virt.corbina.net%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopentracker.io%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexplodie.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fexodus.desync.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fwepzone.net%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker2.dler.org%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.dler.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.ccp.ovh%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.0x7c0.com%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2frun.publictracker.xyz%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fnew-line.net%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fmoonburrow.club%3a6969%2fannounceI’m not on pc but on android it gives me infinite download time
Ah yeah, seems like nobody is seeding it at the moment. I’ll start seeding as soon as I get home.
Y’all yunggins should also learn to use hex code translators:
68 74 74 70 73 3a 2f 2f 77 65 62 2e 61 72 63 68 69 76 65 2e 6f 72 67 2f 77 65 62 2f 32 30 32 34 30 39 32 34 32 30 30 31 34 31 2f 68 74 74 70 73 3a 2f 2f 63 6f 64 65 6c 6f 61 64 2e 67 69 74 68 75 62 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 69 41 72 74 6f 72 69 61 73 2f 6e 6f 70 73 73 64 6b 2f 7a 69 70 2f 72 65 66 73 2f 68 65 61 64 73 2f 6d 61 73 74 65 72
The modder posted like two days ago that he was gonna continue to maintain it lmao how quickly they changed their tune
I think this is a way to release it, it will get copied numerous times, and then he can shut down and avoid legal trouble.
Putting it on nexusmods was a PR stunt.
Was enough to make a crack, so, now we all can play it without DRM anyway
i assume he got a cease and desist letter from sony
According to public sources at Nexus Mods he has taken it down preemptively out of fear for possible consequences.
But there is always the possibility that the cease and desist letter came with a firm request to not talk about the cease and desist letter, but that is highly speculoosoh okay
Nexusmods has always been cucked about this sort of thing. I cant blame them but its still sad to see.
Did you even read the comment lol
It can be made the argument that the mod is a way to circumvent copy protection and due to this in conflict with the DMCA (and all the equal laws in many other lands).
A mod like this is not the worth to go to court over, so it is only understandable that the creator has pulled it from the net the best he could. And even if Nexus had pulled the mod down over a DMCA notice nobody should blame them. We may not like the laws but Nexus Mods is bound to it.Nexus Mods didn’t delete it. The creator took it down themselves.
Yes, I know. Never said anything else.
deleted by creator
and ofc sony be enforcing drm
Things that get removed by staff on nexusmods don’t show a ‘Not Found’ link or have the title renamed ‘DELETED’ - they generally show ‘removed by staff’ or ‘under moderation review since <date>’.
‘Not found’ is usually when the mod author unpublishes a mod.
This sounds like the typical mod drama, author has removed it for some reason and people are jumping to conclusions and/or the author is gaslighting people into the wrong conclusions.
Nexus Mods confirmed they didn’t do it
The mod who bypass’ the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods
That poor mod - they generously offer to go to peoples’ houses to bypass the PSN login and then get removed from the website! That’s some gratitude!
that
Better?
Yes, and “bypasses.”
So much for the guy making his vow to always maintain it.
Not surprising. Nexus mods will remove literally any mod that a company asks them to, and have done this a lot in the past.
The author removed it, not Nexus.
What do you suppose they should do instead? Get sued out of existence?
I’m not saying they shouldn’t follow through takedown requests, just pointing it out. Nexus mods isn’t the place to put mods like this.
Yes, and make a scene about it. Barbara Streisand.
Barbara Streisand
Worked wonders for the Yuzu developers.
No, it worked for everyone else afterwards. Also Yuzu were being actually scummy and aren’t really a good analogy.
I doubt they could be sued over this at all.
They could be, easily. Sony wouldn’t likely win, but all they really need to do is bury the operators in legal fees and subpoenas.
Yeah my bad thats what i meant. They could be sued but not successfully. If the biggest modding platform doesnt fight back then there is little hope outside of decentralized platforms, but preaching to the choir on lemmy with that one…
