It’s become way too common in the AC community this past year. I’ve been sharing the Mustang work on Discord with a group of people, and the first complaints I got weren’t even about the 3D model or anything like that. It was about the fact that I’m encrypting the 3D model and selling the non-encrypted version (with permission from the creator), just so I can hopefully recoup some of the commission costs and put that money toward the next 3D model I want to commission.It's the sad reality of creating mods in 2025, no matter how much time, effort and passion you put into a car mod, the moment you encrypt it some people will go ape****. Most likely because they can't rip it apart, claim faux-ownership through meaningless "changes" or "fixes".
I've become very much pro-encryption over the past years, having seen my older car mods (which weren't encrypted) get broken apart and sold on 3D model sites for exorbitant prices. Just last week I had to take down a 3D printable version of my T33/2 which some jackass was selling for 30USD online. Several of my old Japanese prototypes are on similar sites being sold to this day.
If you're not satisfied with certain aspects of the mod or want to see bugs fixed, just communicate to us via the proper channels so we can get them fixed, it's not that hard mr. Easy!
One guy even went as far as to say he’d just buy the unencrypted version, share it with everyone, and then do a chargeback. Only in the Assetto Corsa community