So we are on our own if we post hacks here. Good to know.

Thats correct, just like every other modifications site in the world - except that we have a licence check, unlike every other site (well, except the German site).

come on guys, stop whinning, if your scripts are duplicated there, that mean you do good job... they like your hacks so they spread them everywhere... aren't you happy??

these pirates are not doing any profit from it... compared to any coder here that do commercial work for their clients... they use your hacks freely and are paid for it... this is where the focus have to be put if you want to panic for something...

i don't think so Nexia ... instead i think that some sites can give to the newbies some support onto their sites because they can show to these newbies that they are 'masters of coding' ... hope you can get my point ... :)

edit. with 'support' i mean money ...

sure i get your point.. lol.. i was more relating to credits and real commercial profits... beside the fact that some pirates are hired by corps to help on security and coding, the others are merely captain Ahab in the market of files sharing.. lol

I think its more an issue of someones' pride and joy being duplicated and used without their consent. It doesn't really have nothing to do with money/support or anything else (well at least not for me), people put these modifications together for free and I guess it is annoying that someone else comes along and redistributes them without asking.

Like if you are giving sweets out to people then someone comes along takes a handful and starts giving them out to other people. Sure you don't really mind but you'd rather have given out the sweets to the person yourself, would you not? ;)

The part I don't like is some of these sites charge for the hacks or the option to download them.

Using that analogy, one addendum would be that you were the one who created the sweets and they took the credit for creating them.

It's more than that. These mods can only be downloaded by people with valid license keys. When distributed through other means, this bypasses the level of security, and makes the security invalid. It also means software pirates can benefit even further via our mods.

If someone knows how to get an illicit version of vBulletin, they can just as easily get hacks online from the same illicit community.