well it's a thin line we ahve to draw.
The hacks are an important reason for a lot of users to buy vbulletin, so we cannot disallow them to see the hacks forum, but we have to make sure, that no unlicensed user can make use of our board for illegal purposes...
i think, the way it is now, is the best we can make, but we know that if you have other preferences you can see that different