It became official quite some time after it was originally released...I guess UBI thought it was too late to shut the stable door after the horse had bolted! But for quite some time any threads mentioning it were deleted and users discussing it suspended.
Same thing with the removal of "securom" copy protection that was bundled with Pe2.
No-one within the IL2 community raised any objection to modding the game in these respects...though in terms of financial impact to a company - any software publisher is going to treat bypassing copy protection/anti-piracy methods far more serious than user-modification of the game for gameplay purposes.
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