[Lord_Greywolf]

the free ones a lot of times (either companies, people, what ever) take the scripts and use them for them selves, or actualy steal whole shards

it is awful, but it happens and then there is not much people can do about it

i was on 1 shard where the site admin (person that took care of the web site and the file directory) stole the whole site - even account info and started his opwn shard as a duplicate of that one

if this was in place like i suggested above - that could not happen - only the account info could be taken (passwords are encrypted - so no worries there),
the items saves, etc, but with out the owners account - would not start up
and if he left the owners account intact - then the rightfull owner could log in and wipe the whole shard in matter of a few minutes

so this way - it protects a shards scripts from people that might even think of taking some or all of the scripts