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STALKER-THEZONE

Copyright 2023
All content is owned by either Bohemia Interactive or GSC Gameworld.
Credit to GSC Game World for allowing mod creations for other games.

What is TheZone?
TheZone is a regularly updated, highly customized and improved fork of the old STALKER Exclusion Zone map from the 3 STALKER games trilogy!

What has been improved?
New Areas / Labs / Bunkers / Models / Animations / Textures / Livonia Assets / Ladders / Doors
Old textures have been updated with new UHD Parallax textures
The in game map screen has been fixed with textures roads and buildings
The NavMesh has been regenerated
The Satmap has been regenerated
The Surface Mask has been regenerated
The Height Map has been regenerated
The WRP has been regenerated
The terrain itself has been regenerated.
Many Many more things that can not all be listed here so please see the link below

For a full list of changes see the change-log
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/changelog/2951293993

How to host this map?
Join the discord and download the mission files.
https://discord.gg/V5hcKP6YDG

Can I repack this mod?
Yes you can! - But if you do this you wont get the juicy updates i release and you will have to update your mod yourself.
All content is owned by GCS GameWorld Studios & Bohemia Interactive Studios
Please Credit GSC Game World for allowing mod creations for other games.

!!! ATTENTION !!!!
!!! ALL FRAUDULENT / FALSE DMCA CLAIMS WILL BE LEGALLY COUNTERED EXPOSING YOU TO FURTHER PROSECUTION!!!
SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION!

Bohemia Interactive Studio TERMS!

Originally posted by Bohemia:

Workshop Contributions are Subscriptions,
and therefore you agree that any Subscriber receiving distribution of your Workshop Contribution will have the same rights to use your Workshop Contribution
(and will be subject to the same restrictions) as are set out in this Agreement for any other Subscriptions.

User-created Content
If You create any content ("content") using the game or make it available through the game, You may do so, but there are rules.
This content must not infringe anyone's copyrights or author rights, it must not be offensive to people or illegal in any other way.
For the benefit of the entire User community, You give us an irrevocable permission to use, copy, modify and adapt anything You create using Our game and share with
other Users of Our game in multiplayer or as an online download (including but not limited to in-game objects or terrain composition).
You also agree that We allow other people to use, copy, modify and adapt Your content under the terms of this license.

Steam/Valve TERMS!

Originally posted by Steam/Valve:

In steam workshop TOS it is stated that the developer of the game must give permission to sell mods,
In Bohemia's tools policy it is stated that it is forbidden to charge for mods and is also breaking direct TOS from the game developer thus breaking steam workshop TOS
as stated you need direct permission from the developer and Bohemia has made the stance clear.

Specific Workshop-Enabled Apps or Workshop web pages may contain special terms (“App-Specific Terms”) that supplement or change the terms set out in this Section. In particular, where Workshop Contributions are distributed for a fee, App-Specific Terms will address how revenue may be shared. Unless otherwise specified in App-Specific Terms (if any), the following general rules apply to Workshop Contributions.

THE LAW!

Originally posted by US CONGRESS:

In 1998, Congress enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512 (the
“DMCA”), to provide a framework for addressing claims of online copyright infringement.

Congress also recognized that these “takedown notices” could be used maliciously to
secure the removal of content that was not legitimately claimed to be infringing. Accordingly, it included a provision in the DMCA authorizing those aggrieved by fraudulent notices to bring an
action against the sender for damages.

Section 512(f) of the DMCA creates liability for knowingly making false claims in a DMCA takedown notice or counter-notice.
If someone claims in a takedown notice that you are infringing their copyrighted material while knowing this to be false, then you can win damages from them in a lawsuit. In recent years, the targets of wrongful takedowns have fought back and won damages and favorable settlements from individuals and companies sending bogus takedown notices. For instance, in Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc., 337 F. Supp. 2d 1195 (N.D. Cal. 2004), two students and their ISP sued voting machine manufacturer Diebold after it tried to use DMCA takedown notices to disable access to Internet postings of the company's leaked internal email archive. The court granted summary judgment to the students and ISP on their claim, finding that portions of the email archive were so clearly subject to the fair use defense that "[n]o reasonable copyright holder could have believed that [they] were protected by copyright." According to the EFF, Diebold subsequently agreed to pay $125,000 in damages and fees to settle the lawsuit. For another example, see Crook v. 10 Zen Monkeys in our legal threats database. Someone who has sent a baseless takedown notice about your content may be more inclined to back off if you remind him or her about section 512(f) of the DMCA, in addition to sending a counter-notice.

Translation for people/s with no legal background:

Originally posted by EXPLANATION:

Lets start with Bohimia:
You AGREE that we allow other users to use, copy, modify and adapt Your content under the terms of this license.
This gives everyone the same rights when it comes to user content for dayz. You can download and upload whatever you want. You do not need to pay or ask for any kind of permission from a legal perspective. However it is a common courtesy to ask the author for his/her permission but again from a legal perspective you DO NOT need this.

Now lets move onto steam:
Specific Workshop-Enabled Apps or Workshop web pages may contain special terms (“App-Specific Terms”) that supplement or change the terms set out in this Section. In particular, where Workshop Contributions are distributed for a fee, App-Specific Terms will address how revenue may be shared. Unless otherwise specified in App-Specific Terms (if any), the following general rules apply to Workshop Contributions.
This states that workshop enabled apps such as dayz may change the revenue terms and in this case bohemia have exercised their right to do this. So in this case Bohemia app specific terms overrule steam valve revenue terms. This means you can NOT sell mods created for dayz. Period! There is no way around this or loophole to be had. You are not allowed to sell mods. And yes this does mean packing code into a server mod pbo. The very moment that you create this and pack this into a pbo is the moment you agree to the terms outlined in the agreement.

#STALKER #EXCLUSION #ZONE