FyreSpiryt: "Well, Pen, it'd be nice for reference. For instance, if I'm working on a scene and want to know who made a certain prop, it'd be nice to be able to acess that from inside the program rather than having to dig through CDs and hope I can find the original ZIP." Mmm, yum - this'd be a nice ability regardless of any encryption hanky-panky. duanemoody: "Without going into specifics, an encryption block is put in the file which among other things contains a critical part of the original file without which the item is useless. Hack away in Notepad; the file is secure media regardless of what its datastream looks like." Certainly text-only files can contain encryption (IIRC all e-mail is just ASCII - but programs like PGP encrypt anyway. It's been a long time but even I have dablled in writing text-only encryption). "Another "shout-out to all my peeps" function would paste a list of creators into a text box for copying and pasting attributions into your gallery image comment" Again neatly avoiding any comment on encryption of data, just being able to list up every contributor to an image (and the full name of the product you've used) would IMHO be a distinct benefit to many. I would like to be able to do this without wading all over the place wondering where items like eyelash transmaps came from, for example (Erm... how would textures be affected?)