Not true, the reason Napster got busted is because their servers were being used as go-betweens for searches and files.

vBulletin servers would have nothing to do with a seperate Warez board. That's like saying if someone gets stabbed, the company who makes the knives could be sued.

In all honesty, lots in the license agreement is un-enforcable and has no basis in law [this is the same for lots of software], Jelsoft know that as well as the next man, they just hope to 'scare' people into complying. A license agreement isn't the word of law.

Anyone ?

But it is somthing you agree to, making it a contract, making it the law, i f you break said contract, your license can be revoked, then you would be pirating software if you continued to use it, and you would be really breaking the law.

But if Microsoft put in its EULA that you owe them your first child, that doesn't mean that you do.

Lol well... it sort of does if you break the contract you cant use the software.

Actually, when the EULA would be taken to court, that part would be ruled invalid. ;)

It wouldn't make it the law... This is my only point, I'm not saying Jelsoft have no right to put what they want in a user agreement, as they do - it's their' perogative, but at no point does it become the law - it's a contract and nothing more.

I guess I'm the most naive and clueless one here but aside from one explanation given I can't think of any reason other than boosting post counts to use this.

I'm honestly very intrigued by this 'mysterious" hack. What am I missing?

Is the basic funtion of this hack to "know" who has seen a particular bit of text or link?

Exactly :)

Ok. Thanks. Now that I understand that, on to the next question.

What circumstances or situations would this be useful?