The Problem with Stolen Content on the Minecraft Marketplace

The Marketplace on Minecraft Bedrock Edition has quite a lot of issues with stolen skins, maps, texture packs, and mods in recent times, and has been thrust into the spotlight in the past month with a release of a video by @AntVenom discussing the Faithful 32x situation. Recently, the Aether Mod was also recently stolen and published to the marketplace, further highlighting the problem. This video attempts to bring more light to the issues at hand, so that more focus and solutions may be brought to them. All of this commentary, over some Hive Bedrock Skywars background gameplay.

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[PotatoPie]

Vizzy (Kraineff) says in a Discord message that Faithful is currently hidden on the marketplace, and will be back up in a few days. Based on our experience of Vizzy in the past, you may or may not want to believe that. Just figured I'd put this out here in case the video ages badly.

Also, apologies for the random quality drops that the videos have been experiencing recently. Working on finding the cause of that and hopefully fixing it soon 🙂

[jinglesthecat]

Yup. I'm a skin creator and I recently discovered a partnered company had posted slightly edited skins that were heavily based off of content I've created in the past. I contacted the studio directly, and, unsurprisingly, received no response. It's clear they have no intentions of stopping seeing as they have since posted more stolen content- skins I recognize unquestionably from NameMC. I don't look forward to the lengthy process of communicating directly with Mojang/Microsoft, and am honestly seriously considering just letting it go, sad as it is. Great, informative video!

[nextinline]

There are two sides to the Marketplace. On one side, you have great content like the Sonic DLC and Pirate's Fortune, and studios like Gamemode One and Noxcrew, And on the other side, you have some unknown studio releasing stolen youtuber skins. I really want the amazing content on the marketplace to be recognized more, but I feel like everyone is caught up in the "trash" stuff like the skins. Maybe Microsoft will eventually have quality assurance teams to the marketplace, but that seems far off. Either way, I'm excited to see what the marketplace has to offer in 2022.

[getday]

"Faithful 32x" and "The Aether" stolen and put to the marketplace is horrible. Microsoft needs to fix it.
I think one of the proper legal ones are "StoneBlock" because it is legally distributed by FTB.

[jamemeus]

I… really like the direction your content is going. I like these “general” bedrock commentaries more then the hive ones because I’m just much more interested in this stuff. If I had to give a little feedback, I would say just keep doing these more minecraft bedrock focused videos instead of the hive focused videos. Great job

[protobuster]

Something about “We Among Us” makes me cringe.
Anyway, very informative video. I would like to say that I’m surprised this is happening but when you mentioned that Microsoft is making money off of these stolen items, it made a lot more sense why they’re so slow to act. Also it sucks because now people who don’t play bedrock are going to use examples like this and bad featured servers to say why they don’t like bedrock edition…even though those problems don’t represent bedrock as a whole.

[ricedanan]

The Marketplace is basically the Google Play Store of Minecraft. There are genuinely good addons, maps, and resource packs that are sold at a fair price but those are often overshadowed by the massive abundance of terrible maps and knock-off versions of popular and trending topics using different combinations of terms to narrowly avoid copyright infringement.

[CrispyMC]

This just further proves what Pixel Paradise showed us at its time of release: Minecraft is slowly falling into Microsoft’s corporate wormhole of shameless moneygrabbing, and Mojang can’t really do that much about it. I’m just hoping this situation improves over time and for the Minecraft community to slowly restore its wholesome origins.

[Augustberglind]

this actually should be interesting, love your general Minecraft videos over just servers

[Ang_]

the aether map looks really good, my friend played it and enjoyed it a lot, really unfortunate that it was stolen

[kabirvariava]

honestly my only qualm with bedrock as a java player is the marketplace. I don't care about any of the bugs (which java also has plenty of), or the different features (because I understand they're made in different engines). I just think putting microtransactions in a game with a primarily young audience, who usually have no sense of the value of money, is scummy. And then I hear about the stolen stuff on the marketplace, and it really doesn't help bedrock's case. I play a lot of modded Minecraft, and I don't want to have to pay as $5 (which is 369 of my country's currency, way too expensive) for a simple tools mod when I can get it for free in java, and I can't even get a refund. Otherwise, I think I agree that Bedrock is the future of Minecraft, but they really need to improve the system

[CrayRT]

The minecraft marketplace was supposed to act as a way for minecraft creators to make a living out of making content for player. But if content on that marketplace are stolen from other creators, then all that is doing is harming the creators of rhe original content. I really think that the minecraft marketplace needs to have a way to regulate the content that is posted on there(either user based reports or a team manually checks content before making it public) this way things like this shouldnt happen. The fact that this is happening on there and people not getting refunds for the stolen content is just unreal and really heartbreaking. Like Minecraft Bedrock already had a bad rep for having Microtransactions in the first place, but this situation just made things even worse. I hope things get better.

[ohhello]

It's really sad seeing so many videos & comments about this making it seem like the Marketplace as a whole is bad. A handful of partners who started stealing once they got accepted is overshadowing all the amazing partners who make original content.

[Spike_]

the aether thing made me a bit mad ngl…like I wouldn’t want people making over 10k on something I made… like bruhh, and for them to do it on something so nostalgic like that, is just stupid

[ambiennt]

A lot of the points you make I agree with, and I too loathe the marketplace (I say that as someone who has worked in it). But you failed to define what the term “stolen” really means as it was used in this video. Assets? Intellectual property? Themes? How does it differ from inspiration? Etc

[wqtermelon]

This honestly was kinda crazy since microsoft didnt do anything. not a great look for them😬

[Loly]

4:10 how are u still moving your fist even your inventory is opened are u using invisible hax?!?!

[Blqht]

Ive been recently scammed off the marketplace. I wanted to get a cool parkour map that was about 1000 minecoins and i bought it. When i created the world, there was no map... I tried to make a new world, there was no map.. I really hope that they should do something about this, the map got removed, but i bet there are more things like this in the marketplace.

[TurboPiggy]

Can you believe there was a super cool potato pie skin set?? I bought like 10 of them!!

[andMango]

4:08 was not auto he just did a glitch where you punch a certain block and open ur inventory