Who's stopping them from using 'deadly' force if the host and user refuse to take it down?

vBulletin isn't too concerned, plus these sites are everywhere. You shut one down and 3 pop up in their place.

No really its not dumb to say to wrongs don't make a right, because it doesn't. Just because someone is breaking the law doesn't mean someone gets to be a vigilante and do the same. Just like there are legal consequences (or lack there of is some places) for using pirated software, gaining illegal entry and destroying data or defacing websites is illegal especially where Jelsoft is located.

How many actual professional business people would use vBulletin if they caught wind that they could at any time come in and take their site down? Whether its a nulled copy or not makes no difference, the fact that someone could become a disgruntled employee one morning and simply hack every vBulletin forum to peices, would be enough reason not to use vBulletin any longer and find an alternative for many, many users.

Just to remind people, the topic of this thread is not nulled vb sites. :)

topic should be changed to to : Are you an Internet cop :)

People are passing hacks around but end of the day they dont get the added support like we do on here so stop letting it worry u that someone is getting something cheaper than you.So long as u all above board then u can sleep safely at night in the knowledge that u paid for your vbull.

Why?
Because people can.
And because there are a lot of others that can't get them from here, because they are not licensed.
So, some folks with "big hearts" (LOL), distribute them to those unlicensed.
It's as simple as that :)

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If by anychance the author is bothered or even aware that their script is being distributed by an illegal participant then report it to the authors (bare in mind you'll be spending your time pming) Report the site to the author and if he/she is not happy with their scripts being distributed then they have the choice of removing their script or do what everyone does and get's on with life.

or wait till vb releases a new version of its boards software and then all the existing hacks will then be obsolete.

That's not a deterent nor a solution in preventing scripts being distributed. As soons as the new line of the vbulletin software is released the majority of authors have updated their scripts. They can either carry on releasing here and have valid license holders download their scripts and forward them on to these third party suspect sites or they can simply stop releasing them period.

You can eventually get one site shut down but 3 will pop up in it's place and the same rules applies to authors who eventually get sick of releasing scripts and remove/abandon them. They will leave and 3 other coders will pop up in their place.

It's a vicious circle, unfortunately they will always prevail so I stand by my original comment by saying get on with life and forget about making any kind of impact or plea here to prevent it or even question why scripts here make their way to warez/filesharing sites.