I have found more reasons to dislike the Mugen Archive. Their previous use of AdFly was used for downloading anything from the archive to make money, whether it be characters or stages or even full mugen games or screenpacks. I have learned they have dropped AdFly for advertising to generate revenue, but still ask for donations. This is a big problem. By using AdFly and asking for donations for the Mugen Archive, they are breaking copyright laws to characters they don't own. This is piracy. Marvel, Capcom, SNK, DC Comics and so on and so forth own their characters for their respective intellectual property. Such custom characters, for example, like Superman and Batman, both owned by DC Comics, I consider interactive fan art, and should not be used for profits or monetary gain. Anytime that anyone sells fan art like Mugen characters that resemble Marvel or DC characters is infringing copyright laws on whatever company owns the characters that we, the players and creators, do not legally own. They essentially become bootlegs. Such copyright infringement, as we know it, is illegal, and if Marvel Entertainment, LLC. or DC Comics or Disney, and even Capcom and so forth finds that the Mugen Archive is asking for donations for so called "VIP" status, they can and quite frankly should file a cease and desist order to stop the Mugen Archive from receiving donations for content they do not legally own. Some former users of the Mugen Archive are even locked out of their accounts and are required to make a donation to regain access to their accounts. Again, this is illegal. These mandatory donations are enabling the Mugen Archive to commit piracy for content they do not legally have any copyrights to. With that said, some characters are original works, and originally conceived by actual artists who worked on all the sprites and moves of their original characters. For example, Dragon Claw is an original character created by Singaporean creator Reuben Kee, and he had copyright for his Dragon Claw. Even after his death from a team boating race that drowned him and several of his teammates when his boat tipped over, I believe his surviving family now own the rights to Dragon Claw, even though he is still available to download for free, which I am grateful that they still allow players to download him and add to their Mugen. May Reuben Kee rest in peace. With that said, I hope these points I have brought up helps all of us understand that they are breaking copyright laws and are committing piracy with these so called donations that they for some players are mandatory for them to even access anything. To finish this post off, I'll leave a link for a video by True Gamer on YouTube for his input on the Mugen Archive, as this video helped me with my post. You all take care, and have a good one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh2fOb8CiGQ