Street Fighter V Costume Modders Catch DMCA Warnings

Prominent PC modders BrutalAce and Khaledantar666 are scaling their operations after receiving DMCA takedown notices from Capcom for paywalled Street Fighter V mods. The reasoning, it seems, is that they were using copyrighted materials to make the mods and profiting from it via Patreon. Maybe they shouldn’t have accepted donations, but their work is/was pretty impressive.

"The DMCA notice was issued because Capcom is stating that we (modders) are using copyrighted materials to make our mods and earn something from our work," Khaledantar666's statement reads. He goes on to say that though activity on Patreon will cease, they will continue to create mods and operate on their various other channels. At this time, it appears that Capcom is only targeting mods that are locked behind a paywall. We have reached out to Capcom for comment on the matter and are currently awaiting a response. BrutalAce also posted a going away message on Patreon yesterday morning, but cites different reasons for the hiatus.

You are always playing with fire if you are getting paid to work with licensed materials. While I know that technically people are just giving them money so they can do whatever they want, lawyers are pretty good at making a connection between cash coming in and licensed based material coming out.

I still boggle at how people think they can just take others' ip and sell it.

Like I said many times on other forums. The only way to get around this is by using bitcoin as payment and using the Tor browser and host your work on the dark web. Not the most popular way but, you can be certain they will not bother to even try to look for you. I mean look at whats up there and still going on for years? Drug selling, Guns, etc etc, they are not going to bother with a game mod like this. I mean it's the way I would do it if I had the skills