Stealing VBorg Hacks
 

I'm pretty sure most of you out there know about this, but if not. This site is allowing users to take hacks off of VB.org version 3 forum. You may want to take action if you can. I'm not sure, don't really wanna get mixed up in this, but just pointing out...

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LOL. Hmm. Very interesting. :p. Your best bet is to report it to the priacy or privacy email at vBulletin.com. :p

Well I figured that if this was about stealing hacks and such. Which is really VBorgs stuff, why would I bring that to VBcom?

Because vBulletin.com goes after them, not vBulletin.org. ;)

Oh, and I just read the forum rules, and it said really not about warez, but this is in PHP code, so anyone that is actually licensed can only see it, and its regarding your site. Sorry if otherwise.

hmm, why would vbcom go after them though? :S

I guess cause vBulletin.com has all the big boys for the software? LMAO. I have no clue actually, but from as long as I've been around here, they've always said to e-mail it to vBulletin.com's piracy (I think) e-mail address.

All piracy reports go to vBulletin.com, they deal with that stuff for all offical sites.

Just out of curiousity and endless boredom... if I write a hack and publish it here, will the hack automatically become Jelsoft's property and Jelsoft's right to decide who is going to access my hack?

No, you can do what you like with your hacks:

However Jelsoft will try and shut down sites who are blatantly taking hacks from vB.org and distributing them illegally without the hackers permission.

Meh, another one, this time distributing VB and hacks, paid hacks and such, I really don't feel like emailing piracy vb when we have like the whole vb team here :S

hope this is helping..

well, vb.org belongs to Jelsoft, and thats the reason, why you should email those things directly to piracy@vbulletin.com

If you send them to the vb.org staff, all we can do is to write an email to piracy@vbulletin.com..

No, it will not. Jelsoft doesn't police hacks. We will work against piracy sites that distribute vBulletin and its individual parts. We will fight piracy if a site is using vBulletin to distribute hacks they do not have permission to distribute. However, we do not have the resources or capital to fight piracy on individual hacks that are being distributed independantly of vBulletin. Each hack author would have to protect his own intellectual property rights that way, just like any other software publisher. Even then we do the best to protect hack authors.

We are looking at ways to prevent these dishonest license holders from diluting the vBulletin name and distributing hacks like this though. This is the number one cause of vBulletin Piracy right now. There are people who have purchased licenses simply to distribute vBulletin and its hacks on blackmarket channels.

This site is looking to be a good place for people to get a copy of vB3 and hacks. If I had found this one a year ago when I was... "unlicenced"... I would've been happy. I'm glad that I paid though, it's definitely been worth it. I feel stupid for running an unlicenced copy. :(

That site should be shut down. The hacks on it seem to be "free" copies of pay hacks. Not good.

They also seem to have a copy of the vBorg style and the AlienSoup style, perhaps they've got someone on the inside of these sites? :( Too bad the world is coming to this.

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Now thats messed up

that is messed up :(

Surely anyone caught using the styles here:

Would have some kind of action taken against them by someone?



There's styles there that people have paid HUGE amounts of money for.. This is really wrong. I'd be seriously pissed if I saw my work available on sites like this.

Laughs at the ignorance in this thread. Reporting them will only make them move to a new server or webhost. Most of them have over seas hosting anyways. Why they pay so much to put illegal stuff on the web is beyond me but they do.

No im not saying its right to do what they do but to boob over this is plain silly.
There will always be people out there that will get it and post it for everyone. All we can do is pay for it and know moraly we did the right thing. I payed for my VB and have seen many of sites out there that have illegal copies. But i know my site will never be hassled or shut down by VB or some skin creator. They cant say the same.

Sorry if i offended anyone but its the truth. Report someone give it less then a week there site will be right back up. VB or the skin places give the hosts or the user the right to take it down before action is taken. This to me is useless if someone is using your paid script dont give a chance nail them or the hosts. Make a example so no one wants to do it anymore. Stop boobin.

That is the primary reason that sites using or distributing pirated vB software SHOULD be reported. If no one bothers to report them, they'd have no reason to worry about being hassled or shut down.. and then even more people would be tempted to use pirated software.

I got an idea, how about VBulletin makes a site like that, and whoever goes, there IP is caught, and then they can play with them....

*scary laugh*

shhh, don't tell anybody ;)

The Dark Blue style is really awfully done...

If one of the vB.org admins hasn't already noticed...

erm, why are you refering to us?

i really do not care, about how the DB style is done on a warez site ^^

Just saying, because it's a style I'm sure one of you worked hard on. =/

Hmm, i think it was Sinecure, not abs sure, but i believe he was.

I just worked hard on it, to make it still work with vb3 :D