[baronvonwalz]

I'll tell you a story, and a grand story it is:

Wordforge.net is opened in 2003, on an Austrian server, and it is run by a good administrator, named Cassandra. A year and a half passes, and she decides she's going to go tour the world. So she hands over the board to Borgs8472, this is fall of 2004. Borgs8472 puts the server on a most shitty server, with constant timeouts, and I offer my services to help with the database migration, after which I am promoted to Technical Admin, this is Winter of 2005. Shortly thereafter I quit, fed up with his mismanagement, only to return Fall of 2005.

It is at this point that the rest of the staff gets most agitated, not because of my return, but because some of the things Borgs is doing, or has been doing. Another administrator, along with support from most of the staff and the board, volunteers to buy the board and take over, with the requirement that Borgs8472 gets to stay on as Technical Administrator, and all hacks that he installs be approved by the owner.

Four months pass, and Borgs8472 does not abide by his agreement with the new owner, culminating in a point where our database is down (my fault), that borgs8472 decides it would be a good idea to put up a link to his new board, a board for the discussion of torrents. Needless to say, when we get our hosts to fix our database problem, they see this link to Borgs8472's new board and get very concerned, if I were a webhost I'd be concerned too.

The owner is nearly fed up with Borgs8472, having gone against his wishes time and time again, and then finally fires Borgs8472 two weeks ago, after finally losing his patience.

Since then, Borgs here has been on a vendetta against the board.

But back to the part about copyright violations.

Our community oriented plan only involves access to the vbulletin source code of me and our other new Technical Administrator, no one else has access to it. In addition, we aren't taking other people's work and passing it off as our own, and we don't intend to. We might be taking other people's code and modifying it to our needs, but that's hardly illegal or wrong.

The basic of the plan is to have the community have more say in the various hacks and tinkering that gets installed on the board, rather than the old system, which was, "Borgs8472 installs something, people like it, or don't, if not too bad".

If you need any further proof that Borgs intentions are insincere, just realize that he is coming to you about copyright violations, something he cares nothing for given the fact that he has a board (www.torrentforge.com) dedicated to the discussion of the acquisition of illegal material.

Our board link is wordforge.net, if you have any further concerns just contact me by PM or visit.