# Technical mumbo-jumbo

So how does eliminating the RipperStore mod make it so you can never have the massive amount of ripping seen today ever again? Right now avatars are served from assets.vrchat.com, which is served with AWS CloudFront.

Why does this matter? Because CloudFront has multiple methods of implementing access restrictions, which make it very difficult for any single entity (like RipperStore) to download a lot of avatars at once. So how does RipperStore make it work today? By using the client mods as a distributed network of VRC players who look perfectly legitimate to a system like CloudFront (because they are legitimate!) to download avatars for them and upload them to their website. You can think of it as a DDoS, but instead of denial of service each of the clients acts as a downloader for RipperStore.

VRChat can't block this behavior because it's invisible to them. The avatar download is being done by a legitimate, active VRC player. The *only* feasible way to stop this behavior right now is to prevent the modded client from uploading avatars to RipperStore. And to do that you must block mods.

Now, are there other ways to do similar rip systems? Yup! (Am I going to describe them here? Haha, no.) But this is a high speed ripping pipeline that has to be shut down.