Can Trail & Cloud Users Download Modifications/View Code?

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Originally Posted by ozzy47

It is just stupid for anyone to implement something like that at all.

I'll tell us what, go take some collage courses, or spend a year learning CSS, HTML, PHP and some bootstrap. Then spend about three months creating a complex mod, then tell me how you feel about someone else controlling if your mod is published when you no longer want it to be.

If I created a complex mod, I wouldn't put it up for free.
Anything I put up for free, I wouldn't ever remove unless there was a security risk.
If I decided at a later date to move everything to my own website, I'd just link the original post to my own website and say I'm no longer updating on here.

Warez sites would upload your product. Lets be real, underground warez sites are never going to take down a product because you or vbulletin ask them too.
If somebody removed a product that works perfectly fine from here, to their website and lets say their website gets taken down for whatever reason. The only people who have that product available to download is a warez website.
As the creator, you wouldn't know whether somebody got that product from this website or a warez website. And you can't go around asking all boards to remove your modification, which you made available for free.

Hence I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, for such a rule to be implemented.

If I ever had the power to implement such a disclaimer:
If many coders who still have their products on this website disagree with me. Sure, I'd remove it.

Adding such a disclaimer gives vbulletin admins the power to decide. Hence they can treat each request of removal, on a case by case scenario. Perhaps as my example above demonstrates, if the only way to get a copy of that modification is via a warez site, the admin may decide to make that product available to download here if they can't get a hold of the creator.