An Important Announcement regarding Panda 3D

[Sven Niscadae]

Doubting there is legal way for them to "detect" who extracts things from the files. To do so would be an invasion of privacy and an attempt to implement a form of malware on your computer. Panda 3D is a third-party (though it's made by the same company but 3rd party in this context) program that does not interact with the compiled game (especially since it's used when the game is not running). They're worried about people trying to "hack" the game and recompile it maybe? Hardly likely since Panda 3D cannot reverse engineer / decompile it back to the Python source code. Also I would assume the launcher checks the game files and validates them to their currently defined build (so it knows when it needs to patch the client). Most users here are using it to extract resources such as models, skins, and audio.

I think this is a case of an uninformed rep covering his stern.