Using an open license isn't stealing.

I understand what you'd like to achieve. If, for example, you licensed your work under Creative Commons, authors of derivative works would be obliged to give credit. You're also entitled to ask for notification of use (which is best practice, anyway).

Licensing relieves both parties of the work involved in negotiating permission. It aims to remove a psychological barrier to creativity, while being fair to everyone.

That's what is happening already. Ever heard of Digitalrivercontent? And about the term "modern society": are you (as a creative person) really not able to think of something else? And of course I mean apart from marxist (materialist) communism which I despise.
I believe "intellectual property" is a materialistic lie of modern society.
I'll try and make it simple: I can only speak as a musician, but when someone "steals" something I composed, telling the world he composed it, then he nevertheless will have a hard time to prove he composed it by composing a new piece in that specific style, so I really don't care if some lowlife "steals" my stuff. As for the material compensation: as nice as it may be for an artist to live from his art - that material compensation influences his art, probably up to the point of total commercialism, which is a bad thing in the end. The art is more important than the artist and if the artist has to starve for that, so be it!

But you said it in your last sentence why modern society will fail:


it's based upon money, not right - like all the "american empire". Copyright is simply a lie.

Say what? Doesn't that more or less fall under "Let the galaxy burn" kind of thinking? Sorry, no way in hell I could agree with that.

So is the cake. Yet, asserting the cake is a lie doesn't really cost you much. Asserting that copyright is a lie could land you with thousands of dollars in legal bills, and if you believed strongly enough that it was a lie (like MegaUpload did) you might just find the FBI at your door with battering rams and a warrant for your arrest.

Haha... well the galaxy is burning in fact, we just don't notice it in our secured modern lives.


Yeah, interesting, isn't it. You cannot help to admit the authoritarian character of all this over and over again. Yet you pretend to believe in the system. I didn't play Portal but I know of the cake, yes... (who doesn't...)

This thread is starting to get weird.

Indeed, I think we're done here.

Bethesda does not want people to use resources from one game in another, regardless of whether it's technically illegal or not. Their games, their rules. If you see someone doing this, please report the file.