i know the guy that owned this board:
http://rhymerainers.deluxfi.com/board/
Lol... he bragged about his being betta than mine... no wonder he registered at my board instead :) lol

Wouldn't it help if you had to enter your licence info during the installation process?If it failed then the VB would terminate installation or something?I dunno, lol.I suck at suggestions.:D :laugh: :ermm: :ogre:

They'd still hack it so that step wouldn't be necessary.

Won't be hard to take that code out, nemesis, every person with a little PHP understanding could do that.
There was another suggestion, that the program will contact the Jelsoft server to get the database schema, but that won't help either.

You know, piracy can never be totally stopped. For example, Microsoft said that their activation system for XP will stop piracy, but nothing changed.

that's so true, because Microsoft stupidly put the file that tells XP it's activation out in the open and undecrpted, meaning anyone that knows where it is can easily take the copy and give it to there friends if s/he wants.

kind of the same with vB, anyone that could get there hands on it, can start cracking it and take out the call home function...vB sould try encripting there code better to make the hackers think what they are doing, plus if they do take it out, the board won't work :D

basicly, have in all the PHP files to check for codeing in each other files and also check the codeing in the DB...then in the DB, if it can't find any codeing, it'll just delete all MySQL info, and that'll piss off the hacker ;)

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I guess you guys are already at peace with this, but I'll say it for the ones that aren't.

If someone wants to pirate something hard enough, it does not matter at all what kind of features you implement to stop them... There is always someone smarter.

I'd rather have it like today, where Jelsoft is (hopefully ;)) spending their time developing new and better software for the ones that pay for it, than trying to stop the inevitable.

One thing that might work would be to not give anyone access to the code (hosting it for us), but I know for sure that I and a helluva lot of others would drop the boards in the blink of an eye.

Hell, even that would probably not be good enough... :/

Encrypting will work, but it will severely limit the number of people that use it. I can't afford $2400(or however much) for the Zend Engine.

Chris