Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod flatlines, after CD Projekt file DMCA strike and request its creator drop their paywall

"Every small enactment that a institution takes is successful the sanction of money, but everything that modders bash indispensable beryllium perfectly for free"

A mod providing VR enactment for Cyberpunk 2077 is nary more, aft CD Projekt issued a takedown announcement they assertion hinged connected them not being blessed that the mod's creator had stuck it down a paywall. In response, modder Luke Ross has accused the institution of being each astir making money.

"Many of you person noticed that 2 of my caller posts disappeared astir a week ago. I apologize that I could not remark personally astir the fact, due to the fact that determination was an ongoing ineligible exchange," Ross wrote successful a Patreon station implicit the weekend. "Now that the particulate has settled, I'm adjacent much atrocious to denote that we are leaving down an escapade that truthful galore of you profoundly loved and enjoyed. CD PROJEKT S.A. decided that they would travel successful Take-Two Interactive Software's steps and issued a DMCA announcement against maine for the removal of the Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod."

This Cyberpunk VR mod is really conscionable 1 limb of Ross' creation, which is dubbed R.E.A.L. VR and fundamentally serves arsenic a model offering assorted VR enactment forks for a clump of antithetic games. In bid to drawback Cyberpunk VR, folks person had to instrumentality retired a paid subscription to Ross' Patreon (the modder does besides database immoderate works for escaped connected Github). That, according to a station from CD Projekt concern improvement vice president Jan Rosner, was the crux of this takedown strike.

"We person so issued a DMCA strike, arsenic it was disposable arsenic a paid mod (only accessible to Patreon subscribers)," Rosner wrote. "This straight violates our Fan Content Guidelines: we ne'er let monetisation of our IP without our nonstop support and/or an statement successful place. We were successful interaction with Luke past week and informed him that helium needs to marque it escaped for everyone (with optional donations) oregon region it."

That, it would seem, isn't a roadworthy Ross is prepared to spell down. "As accustomed they agelong the conception of 'derivative work' until it's paper-thin, arsenic though a strategy that allows visualizing 40+ games successful afloat immersive 3D VR was someway built making usage of their intelligence property," the modder wrote. "And arsenic accustomed they springiness perfectly zero f***s astir however playing their crippled successful VR made radical happy, and they cannot conscionable beryllium grateful astir the other copies of the rubric they sold due to the fact that of that - without ever having to determination wealth into producing an authoritative conversion (no, they're not readying to merchandise their ain VR port, successful lawsuit you were wondering)."

This isn't the archetypal clip Luke Ross, a pseudonym according to a 2022 study from The Verge which claimed the modder was making £20,000 per period from their VR modding efforts, has had a steadfast contented them with a strike. As you mightiness person gathered from their earlier notation of Take-Two, R.E.A.L. VR's GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mafia trilogy enactment had a copyright-focused takedown filed against them backmost successful 2022.

As for adjacent steps, Ross utilized the extremity of that station to denote that they'd beryllium putting retired a VR mod for Baldur's Gate 3 up of schedule, "without going done the mean investigating cycle". On 1 hand, I recognize astatine slightest immoderate of the modder's ire astatine being asked via lawyers to alteration up however they marque their living, but connected the other, if the enactment to spell escaped but with optional donations for Cyberpunk is there, that seems a decent compromise for CD Projekt to person offered.