User blog comment:Prolietor Dominus/Skyrim PC update kills third party patch usage/@comment-3152761-20111123044227/@comment-527531-20111123180726

You don't seem to be getting it. Finding a way around it is most likely entirely possible. The issue is that it's not legal. Most sites does not allow content that is illegal, of questionable legality, or supportive of illegal software. You seriously seem to have no idea how this works or the issues involved. The system in place to prevent piracy is the same system that is screwing over legitimate buyers. If you "find a way around it", it is only going to benefit the pirates, because everyone will have to either become a pirate (due to the act of having to crack the .exe and other potential support software), or remain screwed over by draconic DRM. I took it up with the SKSE team in a mail, though. They assured me that it wouldn't be an issue in terms of script extension, but I honestly have no idea how they can make that assurance. If the .exe is encrypted, it's encrypted, and they can't legally muck with it, similar to how certain versions of Oblivion and Fallout never got functional script extension. We'll see, though. I wouldn't get my hopes up yet. And that still doesn't solve the other issues. As for "diahard fans" "doing what they want" - ever tried porting any textures from Fallout 3 to Fallout: New Vegas? Or from Oblivion to either? Ever tried to host that on "diehard fan"-sites such as the Nexus? Did you enjoy your ban? And that is by a simple ruling based on legality, completely devoid of software schemes intentionally set in place to prevent tampering. This is basically the same scenario of a legality issue / support (or condemnation) of potentially illegal activity, but with the added caveat that there has been safeguards put in place to prevent just that kind of modding.

@Dartmaul15 I thought it did that through a process of injection into the main executable? If not so, how did OBSE/FOSE/NVSE work, and why didn't they work with versions where the .exe had been encrypted (notably Direct2Drive & Impulse version(s))? Honest question here, I'd love to know.