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Copyright, as the name implies, concerns copying. Extracting datapak assets for my own use is not copying.

I have the suspicion that the encryption isn't only there to protect third-party music. BW hinted at wanting to protect Basilisk Games' own assets as well. If this is the case, you'll get no such compromise.

Of course, he also hinted that it's exceedingly easy to find the key to the datapak, which ...

Gorgon Rider wrote:Actually, it does, since those materials aren't your 'personal' materials.

Are you accusing me of stealing them?

Copyright does not have anything to do with my personal use of materials in my possession.

xolotl wrote:You feel like you should have the right to access whatever data from the game that you want. You don't.

It seems awfully Orwellian to forbid people from examining what's on their own computers. Not that any business or government seems to care.

Most games "solve" this problem by making up their own proprietary archive and/or file format(s). I can see how the current solution makes it easier on the developer. PC games based on major, non-game-specific engines (id Tech, Unreal Engine, Gamebryo, etc) usually use a well-defined archive format ...

Oh, okay. Thank you for setting me straight.

Not the license agreement that comes with the game - the license agreement BW had to agree with to be able to use the music he has. He may have agreed to that license, but I certainly didn't. How can I be held to a contract I never even saw , much less agreed to?

And did you buy the digital ...

I don't see anything in the license agreement about the music. Could you clarify?

Also, not all of the music is licensed like you say, as I saw on another forum thread, so why is all of it encrypted?

I went to extract Eschalon 2's awesome music so I could listen to it while I work, only to find that it's encrypted!

I see I can buy the soundtrack, but on the condition that I also buy the game again and pay a shipping fee, for something that's already on my computer .

What gives? I thought this ...