That's part of the problem - you think the issue is too large so you can't/won't do anything about it. By not writing the hack, it might still exist and someone may write it for themselves, but at least we're not facilitating it.

In Ohio, if you (as a parent) are the host of a party and serve alcohol to your children's underage friends, you are legally responsible if that kid goes out driving and hurts or kills someone. It's the same idea - in the end you're facilitating the warez/piracy.

i didn't say that it was too large or unstoppable or that im not trying to stop it im just saying as soon as you get one another one pops up. It isn't easy but with persistance we can get there....

What do you do, apply Ghost every night before leaving the office? I'm thinking about doing that for some of our office computers. I really don't know what folks are downloading and/or what viruses are there.

bit hard to do every pc when you have 2000 pcs and some at remote sites... i do it whenever i find a pc with any illegal software on that...

This is where you install Windows NT or 2000 on all the PC's and revoke the end-users permission to install software. Only all admins would be allowed to do this.
With PCAnywhere you can easily install software and maintain even remote machines.

hes right thats the way to go. aside for a few linux boxes, we run NT and 2k exclusively. And PC anywhere is great for remote locations. BTW: as much as youa re finding on your pc's are you running anon ftp services? Site admins crack me up when they give write access to anon ftp servers and then one day realize their 40 gig hdd has 30 megs free. hehe Whats really funny is to watch a rooky try and right click & delete those locked directories the warez guys make. and the com1's which must be removed in dos.

Yes, but you can use ghost to do multiple machines at one time, I used to do 8 at a time but only cause that's the most that would fit on my server rack:D


I really don't understand this whole lockdown hack issue. The hack isn't what is illegal, and I think it's wrong for the mods to auto-assume that the majority of peeps would use this for piracy, but it's your choice of course as the writers. I really doubt though that you are preventing ANY piracy by not writing this hack as they aren't going to stop simply because of the lack of this hack.

I dont think they are thinking so much along the lines of "helping prevent warez" or "stop it." But they darn sure arent going to help make it easier on the warez people who scatter their hard work across the web for free, and although I agree that lockdown could be used for good purposes, and should be made available to "paying" VB license holders, It is hard to argue with their reason for not coding it if you put yourself into their shoes.

But i do think that Valid license holders should be able to talk freely about it, and maybe they should be pointed in the right direction as far as how to code it or who can help them out. I have sat and watched many of these topics on here and vb.com before replying to any of them, and 95% of the time it gets ugly both ways. So I'm just putting in my 3 cents. LOL
Peace to all!

See, that's my point. Do we honestly think that not having this hack puts ANY dent in warez distro at all? I mean, do you think that a warez site won't just use something else or nothing at all?

At any rate, is there any compromise to this hack, say the second part of the post doesn't show unless they click a button there in the post? I think I've seen something like this here but can't remember the name, I shall have to go a searchin :p

This sounds like a great way to make this hack without it going for warez.

By making the minimum post something more than say so many characters, it just wouldn't work for a warez board if they just say thanks and short stuff. Of course there would be a couple of smart ones that would be able to change the coding to take that out. Oh well :stupid: :mad: :rolleyes:

I made one for a friend, who has a liscence before any of the mods try to jump down my throat :P

I doubt I would release it, he used it for napster servers so that people could get them on the board then post a reply commenting about it.