Detects and warns against sites known to illegally repost mods.
Copyright infringement is an everyday situation for modders. Most of the somewhat popular mods today have at some point been illegally copied and redistributed onto a third party site, without any acknowledgement or permission of their developers. Many of these websites are hosted in Vietnam or Russia, and are hard to take down due to different copyright legislation. Many of these sites illegally monetize their download links to earn money off of the modders' hard work, and several even go as far as to claim ownership of the illegal content. Some of them are known to host malware and viruses and claim that these are real, harmless mods. This has to stop.
When DMCAs and take-down notices fail, we have to rely on the community to stop people from downloading mods from these sources. However, many of the websites engaging in the type of activity outlined above look very well designed and official, confusing many players and making them believe that these sites are actually the real ones. As a result, many machines are infected with viruses and malware, modders lose revenue and reputation and are spammed with reports about bugs which have already been fixed in newer versions of their mods, since only the old versions are hosted on the illegal sites. Stop Mod Reposts is designed to stop this. Here's how we plan to do it:
- Letting people know that the sites are illegal. There is no way we can stop people from using these sites when they're unaware that the actions of the host is against the law and that the host is ignorant of the modders' rights. Therefore, this extension will display an overlay when browsing a site like this.
- Letting people know that visiting these sites puts their computers at risk. No one wants to be infected with malware, so we'll warn them that the sites potentially can harm their machines.
The sites this extension warns about are the same sites as are listed on https://github.com/StopModReposts/Illegal-Mod-Sites and is updated every few days or hours with new hosts.
Latest reviews
- (2023-05-15) Jeremy: I love it so much it helps me stay safe in the internet. I love you thx
- (2023-05-10) Prasid Shrestha: thank you for saving me some trouble of banning 9minecraft
- (2023-04-23) Honker: Very good, There should be a feature to report sites
- (2022-06-20) Mani Dhingra: this is a great and useful extension, nothing really bad about it
- (2022-06-11) new random guy please: ITS BLOCKED GAMEJOLT AND DELETED ALL MY USERS !!! BAD I WILL REPORT
- (2021-07-11) grom grom the pummeler: i hate 9minecraft!!! i hate 9minecraft!!! it would be a nice feature if there was a way to completely unlist 9minecraft from google search results
- (2021-04-08) Cloudy Thoughts: scrumptious #stopmodreposts
- (2021-03-08) redpz: the ui isnt the best but it doesnt really make a difference anyways helpful tool for people that download mods
- (2021-01-05) L. W.: Love to see the community doing something about this, I can't count the amount of times I've seen friends download from these sites and their machines are infected and then they never try modded again (and a younger more naïve version of me may have done the same in the past). Great extension to just let run and then forget about.
- (2020-10-28) Sotaro Shimada: 絶対おすすめなのです 二次配布サイトをブロックするらしいので入れました! ブラックリストになっているので安心です
- (2020-08-18) Bobs Your Uncle: I really hate those low quality sites that always post Minecraft mods within random, poorly-written articles. Thanks to this extension I can finally be assured that I'm getting my mods and shaders with no saftey issues.
- (2020-04-16) anmatngu: beautiful
- (2020-03-17) APPESH1: Oh my goodness! At first, I had tons of doubt in this simple extension. I downloaded it, and it's amazing! One suggestion: Please add modsgaming.us and modsgaming.ru to the blacklist. I fully support this.
- (2020-02-23) Gakuto 1112: MODの無断転載サイトからDLするのを防止できます。MOD作者への貢献の一環としてこの拡張機能をインストールしておくといいと思います。
- (2020-02-15) Jackson Muszynski: Amazing, helped me find mods that weren't virus'! This can not only be used for mod reposts, but it can also be used to avoid downloading other apps/games that can be potential malware/virus'.
- (2020-02-01) Nathan Brusher: A lot of these sites I didn't even know were stealing mods until someone on the Forge forums directed me to this. Thank you so much for making this!
- (2020-01-22) Michael: This is awsome! #StopModReposts!
- (2019-09-19) Soup Man: i have a suggestion, if the mod is stolen, and if i get a warning, add a button to go to the original mod
- (2019-09-14) REDMAN: すごい!二次配布サイト消えろ!!!
- (2019-08-31) RomanPlayer22: This helps me block illegal mod sites. i only download from curseforge.
- (2019-06-19) baddie PRO: A useful feature, I dunno how easy it'd be to implement, but when you go to a certain repost site, there is an option to redirect to the legitimate mod download. I know this'd probably be a pain to implement each individual site though.
- (2019-05-02) Drawn from Flames: As being somone who had there minecraft map stolen by 9minecraft this is somthing I hope will get noticed by more people.
- (2018-11-24) Ryu quit w: これで二次配布サイトでダウンロードすることがなくなった!ありがたい!
- (2018-08-16) Eru Sxj: 优秀的项目,希望能遏制盗版mod等资源的传播。
- (2018-07-05) showta1205: とりあえずModを導入するという方は追加しておいたほうがよいでしょう。
- (2018-04-14) Omar Farrah: I completely support the campaign to prevent the illegal re-posting of minecraft mods!
- (2018-04-05) 青山悠希: すっごい便利
- (2018-03-17) NuclearHurricane Plays MC: i 100% support Stopmodrepost people have stolen mods i made reposted them it made me angry.
- (2018-02-02) Eli Phillip: Im gonna display this in my private server
- (2017-07-07) Awsome: good
- (2017-06-11) M Y: 便利だし Niceですね!
- (2017-03-10) It's a Linux MissingNo!: I want to de Mod review but I want to avoid downloading the mod from illegal site so that way I can support the mod developer and do mod review without fear of thinking " I think this is illegal mod"
- (2017-02-26) Matt Shanahan: Thank you for this. Whenever I'm looking for cool new mods I'm always worried I'm downloading from a site that's stealing them. This is a great help! #stopmodreposts
- (2016-08-30) Nate Scott: Completely useless extension, mod devs should stop using adfly and it wont be as much of a problem.
- (2016-07-08) Roger That: minecraftsix,com needs blacklisting
- (2016-06-21) Twona Onigiri: これで悪質なサイトに行くとすぐ に警告が出てきて、前のページに戻すよう促されます これを使うことにより悪質な無断転載サイトに引っかからずに住みます
- (2016-04-18) Shane Gentle: This is a good idea that this should stop this reposting of mods. #StopModReposts
- (2016-01-29) MODの2次配布は絶対によくありません。 このアプリをつかえば2次配布をしている悪質なサイトからダウンロードすることを防ぐことがます。 一緒に2次配布をしている悪質なサイトを撲滅しましょう!!
- (2015-12-07) Moon Shift: これは便利! まず無断転載はdl数の減少等作者のやる気を削る原因だし、 公式と偽って様々なmodをdlさせ、そのmodの中にウイルスを入れることだって容易にできてしまいます。 だがしかし、これがあればそんな事態を防げます!製作者に感謝!
- (2015-12-07) Xx_Sharief_xXシャリーフ/: 二次配布許せません!撲滅しましょう!
- (2015-12-03) でびまろ: 二次配布でDLすることもあったためこれのおかげでそんなことが少なくなりました!ありがとうございます!
- (2015-11-29) Andrew Blaze: #StopModReposts! I only use Minecraft Forums, Planet Minecraft, and Curse to find my Mods. I rate 5/5, the BEST Minecraft-related Extension!