[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by freewilley

Wow I never been to vbteam before now I just seen their site and I must say they are pretty much organised and the people and staff of that forums seem to be very skilled. I am not mentioning the name of the person but there is a guy who even managed to make a vb4 style from the pictures released recently for vb 3.8.x already!!

They also seem to release their own addons and product modifications, skins apart from stealing stuffs from here.

I don't meant to praise them but I would say they are pretty organized for an illegal site.

Taking them down may not work by cutting down the ad revenue they get. I hold a decent phpbb forums myself with good traffic but my ad revenue never crossed 40 or 50 tops bucks a month. I don't think they will be depend on that to run their forums.

My guess is taking them down will be a hard task or possibly not possible.

regards

Originally Posted by smacklan

They love the attention and could care less about all these attempts. If they could be shut down or even hassled, they would have been long ago. You folks are pissing up a rope, so to speak

Originally Posted by freewilley

By saying skilled I mean they are not just some dumb idiots who just steal the stuffs from here and run a site. They seem to have knowledge about what they are sharing in their just like vb.org.

To me that site looks like vb.org except that they have a different forum style and less traffic when compared to vb.org of course.

Originally Posted by mikey1991

My guess is that people have tried and failed taking them down, and I'm pretty sure at least some of vB.orgs rules are being violated by just talking about them, but heres my 2cents.

Sure they copy the skins and hacks released here, but that just means more publicity for you, I think that they leave copyrights and linkbacks intact, and I'm pretty sure that they click installed on the mod/skin.

As far as I can see, they don't 'null' vBulletin, they merely redistribute copies nulled by other groups... and to null one copy of vBulletin, you must first buy it, so vBulletin is gaining a little money, surely.

They are organised, as far as I can see, and I see that they have the same type of questions that are found here, in the general discussion area, and they offer the same advices.

If this was all they did, offer vBulletin support and hacks, would they not be the same as vB.org?

Just wondering, and not defending them or anything.

Originally Posted by mikey1991

Note that.

That generally translates as:

"If they weren't distributing nulled vB, but just the hacks and support and skins found on vBulletin.org, wouldn't they be the same type of site?"

I'm going to be quite blunt, if I typed half the thoughts in my head down I would be banned on the spot. That kind of little self justification running around in your heads even on it's lowest level appraising in some parts and being a bit spiteful and witty in others honestly in my opinion is what's wrong with this world. It's wrong no matter how you say it or laugh about it in between the lines. Go there and download a mod someone has hidden something in... go ahead, I hope you enjoy then come running back here posting about being hacked. Now tell me in several long paragraphs how you don't need to be lectured or how that can't happen because you did this or you know this, none of you who posted seem to know enough to make a loud voice in this thread, I can't hear you :erm: :erm:

Edit: And for the punks on that site, if they had half a clue and were trying to help the community or "your" community they would be here contributing, now chew on that the lot of ya'.