It's a shame that this has become the reality, as it will only be a matter of time before authors stop caring about their projects and/or disappear from the internet and links start to die. I don't agree with it, and I fully blame those who created this paranoia and set the precedence within this community (a certain windwaker and sunshine pack come to mind). I can understand using the work of someone else in their own projects and claiming it their own, but is it really illegal to redistribute something completely unmodified? If so, it's amazing the internet survived this long and websites like download.com still exist. I don't see how it's considered "piracy" when you're basically just mirroring what the author themselves has already uploaded, free of charge, in its original state. How does imgur stay alive with so much piracy?
In this specific case I really don't care, there are already enough twilight princess packs in circulation to last our lifetime. But this paranoia to copyright law is the reason why so much of our human history is doomed to be eradicated with the passage of time. That's another argument in itself, and I may be ignorant when it comes to copyright. But I have yet to read a case where someone was sued over redistributing a texture pack. I imagine most people put forth the effort to create these things without putting a price tag on them is so that they actually get out there into the hands of people who want them, yet there seems to be an active effort to prohibit just that. If texture pack authors have a problem with their work being redistributed, it should be up to them to take legal action against the perpetrator.
In this specific case I really don't care, there are already enough twilight princess packs in circulation to last our lifetime. But this paranoia to copyright law is the reason why so much of our human history is doomed to be eradicated with the passage of time. That's another argument in itself, and I may be ignorant when it comes to copyright. But I have yet to read a case where someone was sued over redistributing a texture pack. I imagine most people put forth the effort to create these things without putting a price tag on them is so that they actually get out there into the hands of people who want them, yet there seems to be an active effort to prohibit just that. If texture pack authors have a problem with their work being redistributed, it should be up to them to take legal action against the perpetrator.