Thursday 30 April 2015

Rise of the Clones

When you make enough enemies there are bound to be consequences and Dark0ne has a lot of them. A sinister website called donaspito has emerged over the last few weeks. It's a direct copy of the nexusmods website. It's hard to trace the owner and a whois search does not reveal much. Is it a possible counterfit Chinese clone or an attempt by dark0ne to make more money.

Several users pointed out that certain mods on nexusmods are being put behind a paywall such as SkyUI. The modder uploads a sort of a demo of the mod in particular and if the downloader likes it they pay a fixed fee to get the full modification. If this is the case then the duplicate website makes a lot of sense since Dark0ne can avoid taking the blame. Dark0ne is slowly but surely introducing a paywall into the mod scene under the radar. Summer is approaching and Dark0ne needs his usual lavish holiday somewhere exotic. It's a very worrying time for creative modders.

I wouldn't recommend logging into donaspito until more information has been revealed.

http://www.donaspito.com