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For anyone who wonders why encryption is added to various paid addons: just google for vbulletin addons and see that ALL unencrypted paid addons are freely available. Its a huge problem to addon developers.
Consider that we can freely enjoy their work on vb.org while they get paid from the paid versions that they sell. Take that away and the developer has no food on the table and will not be able to release on vb.org

I find the move to encrypt very understandable, even though I hate ioncube and encrypted software.

I need to be able to modify the code. I have previously posted a version of the chatbox that fixed a security issue that I needed to have resolved pronto. There also was a addon conflict I had resolved. This cant be done with encrypted software.

One thing that I think people on vb.org forget now and then is that you are freely enjoying this software and should be grateful for this. I do not think anyone has a right to become angry at a coder who works so you can use the software for free.
it is this behavior that has caused more than a few coders to retract all their work from vb.org