Report vBulletin Piracy
 

This is a real simple plugin you can add in. this little thing will make a fast and easy way to report illegal Vbulletins through your admin CP.

How to Install

Goto Admin CP -> Products & Plugins -> Plugin Manager

install the vB-piracy.xml file

Now

Goto your acmin CP -> Languages & Phrases -> Phrase Manager

Here we are going to add 2 new phrases to your board.

First phrase

Product: vBulletin
Varname: vB_Piracy_Reporting
Text: Piracy Reporting

Save that phrase

Next Phrase

Product: vBulletin
Varname: report_priacy
Text: Report vBulletin Piracy

Save Phrase

you are all done ^_^ I hope this helps you in your fight aganst Vb Pirated boards

Is this just a link added to the Admincp?

Yeah I will make a form in the next release of the hackI requested it on vb.com but meh they said it would be to hard. a novice coder made it LOL

reporting piracy aint solving nothing. if vb wants to stop piracy then they need to monitor torrents and irc channels cause its never gonna stop.. ya cango to *** Staff edit, sites removed *** at anytime and search vbulletin and find plenty of stolen scripts. so stop one three more are coming up.. untill you can stop the suppliers theres no way to stop it.

me i bought my license so i dont worry but its very simple for someone to get a free webserver that supports php mysql or even run your own on your computer. grab the zip or rar from one of the file sharing sites. mask your computer and blam your running illegal forums without a problem

Yeah its true Vizionz. But at least this is a step forward.. Nice hack Lord Katsuhito
Good to see

How can "normal mortals" (like me) see if it's a legal or illegal vB running on the current site in my browser?

And AFAIK the AdminCP "phones home" for getting the latest version, can't they just run automated refferer checks to get all illegal ('xept the one where those functions are edited out) installs? i.e. the refferer must come from an URL registered in ones member area on vB.com.

Man, I'm already getting nervous when setting up a (private, non public, conform to the license) test-forum on my server rather than my notbook :-/

ya got to remember that most the people who pirate vbulletin are php coders so they just remove the coding to do anything ..

and as far as i know you cant know if there running bootleg versions . your just taking a guess like say you see a forum that some 13 year old kid is runnign or you know a friend or someone from work or school running one or told you it was bootlegged Or you ran by a site and read a thread about how they bootlegged the forum.

The scripts when bootlegged are nulled and then you can use them with no license and no call to vbulletin.com

Or if you suspect an illegal copy just go to vb.com to report it, After all we do go there from time to time to check on updates.

I only go there to download updates and get support on some issues. I don't always go there. This was to help those that don't go and would like to report a site fast