Sigh... There is no 'encryption' as such. If you've purchased plants like the orange and walnut trees, you had to wait for an email with an installation code that was keyed to the installation code of your registered copy of Vue before you could use that plant (technically known as key encryption). =All= the new scheme does is embed the registration code into the installer executable that you download from the C3D store; the installer should work only on your copy of Vue, and no one elses (just as happens now). The export issues are a completely separate issue. The first 5.08 beta patch broke the export function -completely- (as well as the saving of modified plant species), and the network rendering. The next two patches only broke things more; that is why they were pulled from the site, leaving the 5.07 as the latest update. The content that originally came from Vue D'Esprit 4 is locked from export due to contractual issues, as well as the fact that Vue 4 vobs lack the metadata that allows export (there was another shift in file format starting with Vue4Pro). When the new patch is released, the export capabilities should be restored to exactly what they were before the 5.08 patch was first released. Some content purchaseable at Cornucopia will be export locked, but that will be solely due to the content creator's choosing to set the lock option. That content should be flagged in some way to avoid people buying something they didn't want, but at the moment things are still being hammered on at the site.