How do you guard yourself against people stealing your maps?

[[M]Mave 0]

I spend days, weeks on maps and I don't want to put them online just so a random script kiddo can start copying everything.

Is there any way to "encrypt" your maps?

[Captain Cody 524]

Store it as lua, make it check the servers IP or name to verify the server and encrypt it using MTAs encrypter.

[Gordon_G 56]

14 hours ago, CodyJ(L) said:

Store it as lua, make it check the servers IP or name to verify the server and encrypt it using MTAs encrypter.

Well, if the map is created from a serverside LUA's file do you really need to encrypt it ?