Moving from pirated to original!

[Moin]

i wanted to ask that, i made a site etc, and tested both invision and vbulletin!

i got the forums software from some random site (pirated i guess), and i tested etc, and found them real good and as Vbulletin is also offering some real sweet services, iv decided to buy!

now the question is, the forums that im already runnin are ofc pirated, but when i buy the forums from vbulletin.org , will my old forums be registered to vbulletin as original? (non-pirated) ??

or is there a way that i can save my old data , buy new vb software and shift it to that??

[Floris]

Buy a license as soon as possible to avoid us taking any possible legal steps.

Piracy is bad, regardless if you just used it to 'test' our software.

Once you have a license you can download the illegal files with the legal files and we will provide you with support instructions once your purchase has been completed. So you don't have any problems converting to a legal board.

[Moin]

yes told u, i only needed to test the software , so id confirm my buy!
i use licensed stuff everytime, but need to check it for my demands :)
i support licensed!

going to buy vb this week !

[Quillz]

In the future, you can always use vB's online demo instead of resorting to using a pirated installation.

[who is chris c]

quills that doesnt show you everything u want to see however i think alot of people actually pirate vb use it on a test site then buy it tbh i did i wanted to see the install and a few other things that the demo didnt show

[DMZAssasin]

Regardless of that, it's still illegal ;)

[who is chris c]

not saying it wasnt illegal just saying there are different MO's for people doing it and if i didnt do it i would have never bought the software

[007]

There's no point in justifying it. If you steal something just to see if you like it, that's still stealing.

So you steal your computer, give it a test run, and if all goes well you go back to the store and say hey I stole this, but I decided I like it so I want to pay for it now?

That's how stupid your argument sounds.

[tehste]

Not really 007 since stealing a computer would actually mean taking the computer so there was one less computer in the store. Piracy doesn't effect the original. So it is like going to a computer store making an exact copy of a computer out of nothing and then walking out the store. Technically you haven't stolen anything. Copyright is just a way to protect authors commercial interest. Soon enough under the Fair Use clause it seems likely that you will be able to use what was once classed as pirate software for testing.

[AdminNation]

Not really 007 since stealing a computer would actually mean taking the computer so there was one less computer in the store. Piracy doesn't effect the original. So it is like going to a computer store making an exact copy of a computer out of nothing and then walking out the store. Technically you haven't stolen anything. Copyright is just a way to protect authors commercial interest. Soon enough under the Fair Use clause it seems likely that you will be able to use what was once classed as pirate software for testing.

So then you don't care if somebody downloads a warez version of the paid release of P3tz and runs it for a few months before making a decision as to whether or not to buy from you?

[Paul M]

As long as they buy it, probably not - otherwise they may just decide not to bother.

[filburt1]

It's illegal to use a pirated version of anything, and there can be no moral dispute of when it is just to use a pirated copy. Thank you for going legal.