the site he was getting them from was a well known "rip" site but it doesn't necessarily follow that he knew that or that the particular models he was using were rips. Many of the comments were discussions on how to get a sup-par PD models to look decent enough to include in the mod.
In fact, he turned down requests to make many new weapons for people because he couldn't find a suitable public domain model or, if a mod of that weapon already existed in a usable form, couldn't get permission from the original author. Many of the early ones were ports (with permission) of Exciter's numerous packs for FNV. That kind of speculation when the guy can't defend himself doesn't really serve a purpose now, does it? He never claimed to be making the models. The question is if I can continue to respect him as a mod author, and even just as a person in general. Still, I'm sure it took a ton of work to get all of it in the game (especially considering he did it all without the CK until 2.11) and I will respect that work no matter what.
It was pretty obvious he wasn't making (most of, possibly all of) the models and textures himself, but I assumed they were supplied to him by the original creators with their consent to use them. If he did know, however, pretty much all of my respect for him will go right out the window. If he didn't know, I feel sorry for him for getting roped up in this mess, and I'm glad he only received a one week ban for it. I find it hard to believe he would have the hubris to take an interview from Bethesda if he knew that his mod was using stolen content, but s***, I could be wrong. Anyone with common sense should know that maybe a small, unpopular mod could possibly get away with theft (not that it should - anything using stolen content should be removed with harsh consequences for the uploader), but anything popular - like MF, which I'm pretty sure was in the top 10 most downloaded weapon mods for FO4 - is going to be scrutinized to a very high degree. Anyway, I noticed a few of the weapons added with the 2.03 beta seemed like rips (completely different style of textures, lower polycount meshes, etc) so I'd be lying if I said this surprised me, but it is pretty disappointing. Wasn't Azhtek the author of Shrapnel for NV, which was also taken down due to stolen content? I always thought of Modern Firearms as Fallout 4's equivalent of Shrapnel I guess I was more correct about that than I realized.
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