No, nO, no.

Its stupid. :p

If i made a hack, and i want give it to peoples, why anybody may take it away for It own closed site? Where i can submit my work for FREE to everyone? :frus: :frus: Stupid

then you think that jelsoft must do the same ?

I say yes for sure, there is no reason to allow other non-licensed members to download hacks. The amount of warez compies of vBulletin, UBB, and all the other "pay forums" is rediculous. I see no reason why anyone that is not licensed would need to create or have the hacks that are made specifically for vBulletin.

I mean really.....if you don't have a licensed vBulletin, but are downloading hacks, what does that tell everyone about you? Also if you are making hacks for vBulletin, but are not registered in anyway, what does that again say about you (how can you make hacks for something you "supposedly" don't have :))? This only shows your are operating a pirated copy of vBulletin.

I like how the forums are now, I had a little trouble at first with saving my username in the form within the vB members area but all seems to be working now :). I am glad someone is taking a stance against Bulletin Board Pirates. I ran a copy of the "lite" version of vB and have recently been able to have a licensed full version and I don't like people ruining a good thing.

Look at what happened to UBB - So many people pirated it they have been cracking down like crazy on pirates and have installed call home features to find them (which is not illegal - it only shows who should and should not have a bulletin board running). Not only have they increased security, but the pricing has gone up as well.

We don't want vBulletin to go up anymore do we? The current price of $160 is a fair price considering all the things is it capable of, I don't think anyone wants to see vBulletin raise to the price of UBB.

Anyway, I have made my point, I am for the way it is now, keep it to where only licensed members can download.

I am with Bane.

in my own example. I am evaluating which bulletin board to buy
wwwthreads or vbulletin. and one important thing to consider is what kind of plugins could be gotten to improve a bulletin community with specific software. If I see some of this hacks could help me to increase the users loyalty well it will a deciding factor

Hacks are a selling point. You don't buy a computer without first investigating how far you can upgrade it down the road, do you?

Allow unliscenced people to read.

Like Mark just said, people need to see what is capable with this software, closing this forum would limit people from seeing that type of information, therefore costing Jelsoft business.

My 2 cents...

I don't mean close the forum in general, I mean close the downloads off to anyone that is not licensed. Make it to where they can view images (previews of the hacks), just not be able to download any of them unless they are licensed.

yes mark good point it is exactly I think

ok download is one thing but we are unable to see the screenshots or demos that some people post and that is bad for vbulletin since we can't see how do they look. sometimes love born with sight

if i see something that i like it, i buy it

Well I don't think allowing people to view images can hurt anything :) - let them view them, just stop from downloading.