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Originally Posted by Opserty

I think its more an issue of someones' pride and joy being duplicated and used without their consent. It doesn't really have nothing to do with money/support or anything else (well at least not for me), people put these modifications together for free and I guess it is annoying that someone else comes along and redistributes them without asking.

Like if you are giving sweets out to people then someone comes along takes a handful and starts giving them out to other people. Sure you don't really mind but you'd rather have given out the sweets to the person yourself, would you not?

It's more than that. These mods can only be downloaded by people with valid license keys. When distributed through other means, this bypasses the level of security, and makes the security invalid. It also means software pirates can benefit even further via our mods.