DCoder
12.03.2008, 16:30:06
I never said MixScramble would be a silver bullet. After all, MIX files don't implement compression so all files are still easy to access with a hex editor and competence. But as LeechKiller showed, there is a demand for such a tool. Mind that mod authors might desire to protect stuff other than art - Cannis and Fen want to protect their AI assets and custom made art, Andre (D-Day) wanted to keep secret a "workaround" for the 100 unit bug back whenever even before LK showed up, Apollo and Speeder don't want people copy-pasting their units with graphic effects, and so on.
By the way, blacklisting people only affects their reputation on sites that actually care - Tactical Trance/Advancer took TS Retro's custom assets and other people's work despite their readmes explicitly forbidding such "borrowing", and published it. PPM banned him, so he posted his "work" to other sites like CNCDEN, where he actually found supporters believing that TS Retro had no right to forbid someone from distributing their work.
(What should the poll be? "Is LeechKiller good or bad?")
By the way, blacklisting people only affects their reputation on sites that actually care - Tactical Trance/Advancer took TS Retro's custom assets and other people's work despite their readmes explicitly forbidding such "borrowing", and published it. PPM banned him, so he posted his "work" to other sites like CNCDEN, where he actually found supporters believing that TS Retro had no right to forbid someone from distributing their work.
(What should the poll be? "Is LeechKiller good or bad?")