A Site Possibly Ripping Hacks Posted Here

[Gio~Logist]

I did a search for one of my hacks just to see if it got out elsewhere, and i noticed that there is a site that i believe is holding all hacks in which we place here, and offering them for free.

*** link removed by staff ***

[Brad]

Posting it here is not a good idea, you're just adding to the problem. Some of Jelsoft's work is on there so I've reported it. I'm going through it now to find all of my modifications (already found 3 on there), I'll be sending my own notice once I'm done although I doubt it will do much..

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Brad

I'm going through it now to find all of my modifications (already found 3 on there), I'll be sending my own notice once I'm done although I doubt it will do much..

..and how do the rest of us do that since you've kindly removed the link ...

[Brad]

Would you rather have every unlicensed user browsing this forum to find that link and download the latest version of vBulletin, your modifcations and multiple commercial add-ons and styles? I don't do these things just to tick off mod authors you know.

If you want the link feel free to send me a private message.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Brad

Would you rather have every unlicensed user browsing this forum to find that link and download the latest version of vBulletin, your modifcations and multiple commercial add-ons and styles? I don't do these things just to tick off mod authors you know. .

Put it inside a code tag then, they are hidden from non licensed users are they not ?

[Jay...]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Put it inside a code tag then, they are hidden from non licensed users are they not ?

cant argue with that

[Brad]

I'm sorry but links to sites that host pirated copies of vBulletin are not allowed, even if they are contained within the code tags.

[Code Monkey]

Then post it in the coders forum.

Which is where this thread should have been started.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by JumpD

Then post it in the coders forum.

Which is where this thread should have been started.

No, that is not company policy.

[FlyBoy73]

I would think that all of you would have some type of copyright recourse here. I know you all put in a lot of hard work and time that most of us (vB license holders) benefit from greatly - Big Thanks, BTW - and that you don't charge for, however since you are the author of this work, I believe you automatically hold some type of copyright over it even if you let others here at vb.org use it. You are not giving some knock-off site rights to make it available there.

I'm no lawyer but I think it would be worth looking into if these people are doing it with multiple coder's hacks / work.