Giving rippers a chance to rip your script is as good as giving someone a chance to improve upon it, find and report or fix bugs, tailor it to their needs, learn how to script themselves, and so on. It's unfortunate you designed your script for the lowest denominator, that's your choice. Trust is a two-way street.
Your argument was (well, *seems* to be) that you wouldn't 'help' users of your script by configuring your script to run with a newer mIRC version unless the newer version protected your scripts. Surely you can see the last person your stance is effecting is the ripper. I think that's rather selfish.
