The purpose of this website is to warn any careless user who for play any mods, is going buy mods ripped or leeched by these people. Almost all Assetto Corsa mod you see in their website are free.
AssettoCorsaMods.com has no reationship with Assetto CorsaMods.net in terms of business. They are literally scammers.
I you want to get for free quality mods for Assetto Corsa, visit its official webpage:
Or RaceDepartment’s website
https://www.racedepartment.com/
Assettocorsamods.org (Sim Dream Development) – Scammers | Don’t buy anything to them
Sim Dream Development (or Sim Dream for short) is a modding group that sells mods on their website assettocorsamodding.com. These people take advantage of the search engine optimization (SEO) capabilities to make people visiting their page (to the point of confusing the neophyte user to believe that their page is an official Assetto Corsa webpage) and unwisely buy “their” products.
Sim Dream are routinely accused of stealing and/or ripping models from other sources, and for good reasons. These mods are more often than not stolen, low-quality, and often ripped completely from other games and content creators without permission. Selling content without the original creator’s consent and ripped from other games is not only wrong but illegal.
But the one who loses especially is you, by buying some mods that you can find for free. The vast majority of mods posted on sim racing are free, in fact.
https://www.racedepartment.com/
These guys stole thousands from the Stock Car Extreme community with the V8 Supercar craziness. They have also stolen Forza models, and then apply poor sounds and physics to them, but this is where things get serious. They started stealing from other modders as well, including F1Classic’s most recent “work”, the 1967 Grand Prix Season.
Keep in mind, the original modders, and modders that got permission to improve the original mods, are not getting anything from this. They are instead feeling stunned from the very communities they have invested so much time into. All they can wish is that these mods get shared for free so the thieves aren’t receiving any more money, because they sure as hell don’t deserve it.
The sim-racing community has known about them for years and afaik there was one attempt to shut them down after a mod creator complained. They changed their website name to assettocorsamodding.com (which was smart as it likely drives up traffic to their site) and have continued selling low-effort mods to unsuspecting racers. The mods on their website look good at first glance, but are cheap conversions from rFactor and Forza, with very little work done on the physics of the cars and how they drive in general.
Sim Dream has now taken steps to falsely copyright strike other mod makers and content creators to take down their original content. A friend of mine recently received a copyright strike on YouTube for a mod review video that he had made which featured the GPL 1500cc mod by Bazza. This copyright strike was made by Sim Dream Development. His review fell under fair use but was still removed. Sim Dream’s website lists the “Assetto Corsa Classic Competition Mod” which features several cars that have been taken directly from Bazza’s GPL 1500cc mod without his permission.
A few days later Sim Dream struck Bazza’s mod that he was hosting on Mediafire and the file was removed. So, not only did they steal his mods but they’ve also taken action to remove Bazza’s mods and claim they have the copyrights to them. I’m not sure how or why this is allowed to happen but it’s totally wrong.
I’m hoping that this post exposes some of the wrongdoing of Sim Dream and creates a discussion on how we can stop them from profiting of the works of others. I wouldn’t mind if they simply converted old mods from other games for free but they are actively making money and being di*** in the process. Let me know if you’ve had any negative experiences with their mods or services and hopefully something can be done.
They have recently abused the copyright system to issue false copyright claims on YouTube and against mod creators. It’s illegal to sell car/track models from other games.
People need to know about this blatant scamming, so we can take them down more easily and stop people from wasting their money on poorly developed and stolen cars. End this while you still can!
Don’t buy anything from assettocorsamods.com.
Don’t buy anything from Sim Dream Development.
You got that?
In fact, the only way to combat it, is to eradicate payware mods altogether, because then people will only be obligated to download high quality mods instead of being lured into ripped, half-finished shit because “well, it’s payware, and payware flight sim stuff is good, so it must be the same thing over here in sim racing.” “Stop stealing the stuff I stole and/or created without permission” isn’t much of an argument if you want to take proper action against all this nonsense.
