Browsing mods yesterday... viewed a Demo link and BAM! Ripped style... this will never end and best not to think about it unless your developing a solution... good attempt Xphusion w/ the watermarks but when they find one of your clients site not using the watermarked images as they have the paid version... it's thiers then. Also what about all the new downloader add-ons for firefox and IE etc??

You can just about DL entire forums these days and piece them together which is sad, thank goodness not everyone is code savvy eh?

Like I said, don't let it stress you UNTIL you NEED to address the issue in regards to yourself. I do take the time to report suspected pirated themes to their owners though.... that is less than a minute process and I consider it respectful to say the least.

S-MAN

Edit: I still LOVE that sig Shelley C :D

good points Michael...

everybody can download a complete site for Offline Browsing, which is not considered leeching, as Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft are including a specific TOS for it... the bug comes when you resell or re-release it.

anyway, the best way for you to not see your style leeched is to avoid a copyright notice in the theme... these thingies are indexed by google... go search for "vbulletin", and 99% of the results are copyright lines in the footer, these are not even sites related to vbulletin code, hack, etc... it's hard for anybody to find a real vbulletin site because of this, but very easy for leechers to find a style and leech it.

yes nexi thats why i dont use Text based © just for that reason heh i put my © on an image that way i can completly remove the text based © from the footer.

I know this is NO way right now to completly prevent the ripping goin on...but there has to be ways to slow it down and what i think ..is all the designers need to sorta band together in a small forum somewhere and try to come up with a good solution to slowing this kinda stuff down cause doing somthing like that would prob benefit the community.

I use to be a designer for php-nuke but the ripping GOT so dam bad i just had to leave...so i came over to VB...to find out its the same over here (not as bad) but its here aswell and its sad to see such a great portal like vb have to deal with this kinda Shat

It's not just with vBulletin its with every single portal, cms, forum, etc. PHP-Nuke, Joomla, IPB, vBulletin, phpBB3 etc. those all are in the same boat as the next one.

You will never stop the hackers, lechers, nullers - it's like trying to stop a virus that's already spread. You cure 1 person and 20 more people are infected. It's a never ending battle and there always 1 step or two steps ahead of the game.

What needs to be done is - congress needs to sit down with these country's and come to some kind of agreement to get offshore people the ban. It would be like hosting in the USA, DMCA notice and BAM there shut down.

the day that happens ill personally buy everyone i know a vb license lmao:cool:

Pretty big attitude change from someone who thru a fit like a 4yr old about it not to long ago eh?

I have to disagree once again :)

Why should we consider a forum that is aimed at the software we purchase to be a privledge ?

Without members vb.org would not exist - its a members forum - nothing more - nothing less.

It certainly is not a Privledge in the sense you meant it.
This board is a platform to sell more copies of vbull - as people come here and see what can be done so purchase the software.

Note : The text above is copyright to me,and that means you cannot Quote it.

so how would you explain why you have access to the files only when your license is verified and your account granted?!


Sub-note: i did not quote you... i'm safe!

Sorry, you can disagree, but what nexialys is stating is correct.

all i know is something has to be done sooner or later or vb is gonna end up like all the rest of the CMS's...dead.......coders will leave,designers will leave iv seen it happen WAY to many times before i mean sure people will still use it but progression in the modding /design part of the community will come to a halt (unless of coarse your one of those folks that just do it for free)