A Site Possibly Ripping Hacks Posted Here

[Zachery]

Keep the sites to yourself, the next person who posts a link to a piracy site is going to have something bad happen.

USE THE PIRACY FORM~! http://www.vbulletin.com/piracy

Again, DO NOT POST ANYTHING (in code, html, php, mysql, quote boxes, etc) on this site that has anything to do with pirated hacks or vBulletin.

[Paul M]

Hmmmm - so members trying to highlight to other members sites that are pirating their work are to be threatened with bans (or whatever "something bad" means) for their efforts. Interesting policy......

Perhaps you could explain what exactly reporting a site illegally hosting hacks will achieve, because it's very unclear to me - are Jelsoft now going to take action against them ? I thought they were only interested in pirated vb, not hacks.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Hmmmm - so members trying to highlight to other members sites that are pirating their work are to be threatened with bans (or whatever "something bad" means) for their efforts. Interesting policy......

Perhaps you could explain what exactly reporting a site illegally hosting hacks will achieve, because it's very unclear to me - are Jelsoft now going to take action against them ? I thought they were only interested in pirated vb, not hacks.

Most of the time said sites are also using pirated vBulletin.

If you want to let another author know of a website, please do it in private.

[Roms]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Keep the sites to yourself, the next person who posts a link to a piracy site is going to have something bad happen.

Very professionally worded from someone who is a staff member....

Oh and by the way, I don't appreciate the fact that my list was removed in this thread. It had no links to the pirate sites, only a list of those styles from members being stolen. I was well within the rules of both this site and VB.

[Code Monkey]

Well, apparently, as pointed out by a staff member in another thread, if people have a need for something and like it, it's ok to steal.

*shrugs*

[Oblivion Knight]

Originally Posted by Infantrymen

Oh and by the way, I don't appreciate the fact that my list was removed in this thread. It had no links to the pirate sites, only a list of those styles from members being stolen. I was well within the rules of both this site and VB.

It was removed because the filenames for several ripped styles were shown, making it easy for users to search the likes of Google for them. It is most likely that any sites offering these styles, would also be offering modifications from vbulletin.org, and perhaps even nullified versions of vBulletin.

It is our policy to try and prevent vBulletin piracy. I'm sorry that you don't appreciate it, however I saw a valid reason for it's removal..