Yeah, there's enough enshitification already in the world with all sorts of monetization trying to turn everything into subscriptions.

If someone wants subscription revenue that much they should release their own game rather than turn mods into yet another subscription hell hole.

In this case it's cause the modder is charging money for the mod, I think CD Project Red even offered to allow it to exist if he stopped charging before this, so I would argue this is on the modder

Not exactly, they made him remove the RDR 2 vr mod. the GTA is still up on github.

this is a terms of service issue, but they're using dmca (copyright) to enforce.

he technically has a case for selling, but defending it would be too expensive. LR also isn't socially adept so he's self-sabatoged himself too.

You don't understand because you didn't read the article

I don't understand intellectual property

I'm asking from a place of curiosity, not a place of judgement. Have you ever created anything? A piece of art, poem or prose, a film, a program, etc?

This guy wanted to make money from this mod and put it behind a paywall, that's the only reason it got taken down.

This seems like a good idea, but a related question I've been wondering about is, what is the best way to anonymously run a software project facing this type of threat model, when you also want that software to be accessible to people? Does anyone know about any tips or resources for this? Is there some kind of darknet github? How do you do social media or collect donations/payment? Also, are there any good examples of projects that did this right?