[Vizionz]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

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.