there are small things that most of you genius coders can do, and first of all is ask for some co-operation from the vbulletin coders

it would be easy enough to implement that all hacks downloaded here, get "married " to the downloaders' account , his own unique bought , paid for, and tracked license

any hack that is done in this way can then be traced , unless modded by some other hacker to remove licensing, but that then becomes illegal, and enforceable, and not something most would allow

furthermore, there can be coding written directly into mods that become dated, and must be updated regularly (even automatically) through licensed portals, a little more work, but this will make it less tempting to distribute and re-distribute other peoples work

just one added note, most of the remarks here sound so innocent as though nobody has ever plagiarized or used copywritten material before, without permission.

I wonder how many here have "tested" software that wasn't received through the proper channels....hehe..ahem

let's be realistic, there is no way to ensure 100% un hackable softwares, it just doesn't exist, so to the coders, I wish that you realize that the more popular you become, and the more sought your product becomes, the more it will be illegally distributed....take it as a compliment that you're doing something right :p

Whew! I'm safe then. I was worried for nothing it seems.

Cool, that means i'm completely useless here... none of my hacks was illegally distributed... the only guys who duplicated my work are from Jelsoft.. lol

do I get a christmas card ?? (without moan)

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I question the truth of that statement, I believe you may be wrong

and may have been proven much more useful, without your knowledge:D

You bragging or complaining?

Since you didn't mention any names, you are on the list. Waaayyyy down on the list, but at least there.

As a slight offshoot to this discussion, I wonder if Jelsoft's pirate detection group (whatever they're called) checks the license of vB running on those sites distributing our mods (taken from here)? I wonder if they tie those member #s to accounts here and remove their privileges?

If they dont have a licence then they dont have any privileges here.

What I mean is: Site A w/ license uses license to download all of the mods from this site. They then use their licensed forum to distribute said mods on their forum to anyone who wants them, licensed or not.

Is this an abuse of the ToS (either of the paid license and/or the rules here) and if so, would their license be revoked?

Wired, like i saw in this thread is that they don't make anything against hack's piracy ... :S

Jelsoft does not own the copyrights to modifications relreased on vB.org, and has no legal rights to take any action.