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minus-squareDoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 months agoGood luck hosting the terabytes of data that mods have.
minus-squareCrankenstein@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 months agoLet me introduce you to torrenting and community distribution of data. It could be implemented this way so that no one individual would need to fully shoulder the burden of hosting everything.
minus-squarepulsewidth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoSince mods are almost exclusively unable to be copyrighted nowadays, there is a very good chance the Internet Archive would be more than happy to host the mod data - as they have with many community projects.
Good luck hosting the terabytes of data that mods have.
Let me introduce you to torrenting and community distribution of data.
It could be implemented this way so that no one individual would need to fully shoulder the burden of hosting everything.
Since mods are almost exclusively unable to be copyrighted nowadays, there is a very good chance the Internet Archive would be more than happy to host the mod data - as they have with many community projects.