- Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:34 pm
#186990
Now the video's down from a copyright issue from pixelmon... I wonder why?
As many of you will be aware, a few days ago a PSA was posted to Reddit concerning the authors of Pixelmon regarding some malicious code hidden in their mod. For those of you who might have missed it, it was essentially the framework to allow them to remotely shut down any server on a blacklist operated by Pixelmon. In other words, if you were playing Pixelmon and you'd upset the authors for some reason, they could shut down your server and/or kick and ban you remotely, with no prior warning and no way of "opting out".http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comme ... copyright/
The Mojang devs were alerted of this and they made it pretty clear they weren't happy with it by warning the Pixelmon staff about it on Twitter. After this the Pixelmon coders unapologetically "promised" to remove the offending code from future versions of the mod.
Today however, the Pixelmon authors have taken their malicious actions a step further by issuing a false copyright takedown notice against a GameChap news report about this matter (original video ID: "jtgucOzfZCo", no quotes). The copyright strike effectively censors the news video as long as it's in place, meaning that the wider community is prevented from hearing about their actions. (Note that Pixelmon have so far tried to claim that their strike was based on an excerpt of malicious code shown in the video for people's reference, when in fact the code shown is already publicly available on social media sites anyway and therefore falls under fair use - it's effectively an attempt at a quick cop-out on their part.)
This type of response from Pixelmon is an anti-democratic lunge at freedom of speech, and a desperate attempt to salvage what remains of their credibility. By including malicious stealth code in their mod, they have betrayed the trust of the millions of unsuspecting people who use Minecraft mods, and potentially laid the path for a host of further abuses in the future.
Although it's seen its share of problems like any community, up until now the Minecraft community has been comparatively clean of dirty tricks like this. If this type of false censorship is allowed to stand, it will pose an undeniable threat to openness and transparency in the future.
Therefore this is a public advisory of Pixelmon's latest actions, which unfortunately appear to have further highlighted their underlying nature and intentions, as a warning to the Minecraft community in general, so that they can make an informed decision before having anything to do with Pixelmon in the future.
For our part, action has already begun against this claim. Our response will be swift and we will do everything in our power to fight it. Thank you for reading.
From the pixelmon mod team themselves
Hey all!
At the request of a Mojang developer, we have released this version, that contains no DRM.
Simple drag and drop change for this, just delete the previous version from you mods folder, drop this in and delete your pixelmon.cfg (Found in the config folder).
With the DRM removed, the mod will still collect statistics (Motd, player count, generated ID etc) for a later feature. This is opt-in, and default set to false in your config.
