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[ChopSuey]

Probably same everything, mods, skins, forums ??

[Trasion]

Some people do steal other peoples work. It sucks, but it is life. There's nothing you can do about it.

It shouldn't be a big deal. You probably have a big enough site, so your members will realize that you had the layout first, and the other guy stole from you. You have nothing to worry about.

[GSeybold]

Hi Marco,
If they copy my site and display my forum on thier site would I be able to contact VB to have them take care of this if its coming from a foreign country? Right now my forum is not attached to my main site-it is housed on a different site altogether but we had planed on integrating it with our main site. Now if my main site gets copy and also my vb forum can vb go after them for displaying w/o a licensce, even if it's in China and coming from a company that does not have contact info.

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

What do you exactly mean with copy your vBulletin forum?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

All they could get is the HTML output of your pages. They can not get your vBulletin software (considering a normal secured server) so vBulletin would not have any say in such an issue.

[haothiencz]

All they can do:

- copy your style, including css, images, html code, javascript.
Q: how they do that? how can I stop that?
A: read post above.
- they cannot get .php file. or excatly vbulletin software as Marco said.

That's why style could be ripped but modification is very hard to rip. Unless you have non-secure hosting service then they could download all your source. But if anyone really want to copy it from your site, hire a coder to make the same thing for them isnt too difficult do to.

That's life!

[Marco van Herwaarden]

They can also get the entire HTML pages, so this includes the posts made. Anything sent to the users browser they can possibly get.

[Speysider]

Are you asking to remove the View source button?
You'd probably have luck asking the browser authors.
But sorry you got ripped off like that, it happens everywhere. Nothing you can do except add something that makes it copyrighted to yourself.

[haothiencz]

Ok, I will show you one easy way to do, not the best way but it would help you somehow.

Add copyright watermark or image like your logo, anything about your site, it could be a little text to most parts of your style like header, tcat.

Your style ofcourse will not look like as it used to be but It could protect or make ripper think twice about ripping a style like that.