[Slynderdale]

The reason its there is to detect pirate copies of vbulletin, what it mainily does is send the url of the forums and the license code where then they check it against the database to see if it is pirated or not, they dont actually spy on your forums like steal accounts or passwords or put backdoors in the scripted, its function is to catch pirated forum users.

I had an idea on how to make something like it but harder to remove, but im not quite sure it would work, but some might not like the idea, but i understand where they come from, its a excelent forum software and offer great support for it, and they dont want people useing pirated software, my idea is having a encrypted php for example zend, thats incorated into every php and would be real hard to remove and needed for some stuff, in that file it would just send the url of the forums where it then checks it against the database and if its a pirated copy it would shut the forums down, it would cut down on pirated software if it was possible to do, but some might find it as an invasion of privacy.