[MRGTB]

I would never install a free hack with encrypted code, you don't know what your installing. Whats stopping a person from adding spyware that you know nothing about because the code is encrypted. Also like another person mentioned, it takes away the ability to customize the code to suit your own site and also check code for bugs that might have been overlooked.

Plus if it's FREE (and nothing is said about it going commercial in the future), why bother with encryption anyway. That would just indicate a person is releasing something for free at first on the sly, with the sole intentions you'll be acting as "beta testers" unknowingly to iron out bugs before it goes commercial further down the line, which your unknowingly going to have to pay for. I can't see any other reason why a person should have a FREE product with encrypted code if he intends for it to remain a free product.

We know vBSEO uses encrypted code to protect his product, but then he always did make it clear from day one that it was a commercial product that you had to pay for in the end and hand picked beta testers who applied, which is different. I really don't like the idea of something being released as free with encrypted code. Just doesn't make any sense at all to me, and makes you suspicious as to the real reasoning behind it further down the line.

Now if you was going to release a product with encrypted code for free at first (and make it clear from day one it will be a commercial product in the end). Which they will have to pay for, thats different! It all depends how you release a hack with encrypted code. If your going to act as though the hack will always be free. I strongly disagree, because there should be no reason for it to be encrypted in that case. The same way free programs like "eMule" are open source.