Report vBulletin Piracy

This is a real simple plugin you can add in. this little thing will make a fast and easy way to report illegal Vbulletins through your admin CP.

How to Install

Goto Admin CP -> Products & Plugins -> Plugin Manager

install the vB-piracy.xml file

Now

Goto your acmin CP -> Languages & Phrases -> Phrase Manager

Here we are going to add 2 new phrases to your board.

First phrase

Product: vBulletin
Varname: vB_Piracy_Reporting
Text: Piracy Reporting

Save that phrase

Next Phrase

Product: vBulletin
Varname: report_priacy
Text: Report vBulletin Piracy

Save Phrase

you are all done ^_^ I hope this helps you in your fight aganst Vb Pirated boards

[Snake]

/me clicks on install

[Cole2026]

Originally Posted by Vizionz

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.

You could also look at some of the JS files in the vB Installation:

http://www.domain.com/forum/clientsc...etin_global.js

Usually there is a message in the header saying "Nulled by" whatever team.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by Vizionz

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.

Removing that 'callhome' does little to nothing in the way of hiding. If you're running vBulletin without a license you can be found out, with or without a nulled version.

[Sinistra]

Originally Posted by Brad

Removing that 'callhome' does little to nothing in the way of hiding. If you're running vBulletin without a license you can be found out, with or without a nulled version.

I would agree. they null out everything but still can be busted. and if you have people on your site that suspect your site is illegal they willl report it.

So this was my way of making it easy for me and others that don't goto Vbulletin all the time to report piracy.

[baronvonwalz]

I'm confused, what would the point of this be? If someone was running an illegal copy of vBulletin, they wouldn't install this, and they couldn't get this plugin anyways because they wouldn't have access to these forums to get it.

[Sinistra]

you have to have a valid copy of vB to even download from this site.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

It is a hack for owners of a valid license to easily report a suspected board from their ACP.

[cOuNtErFiET]

Cole2026 wouldn't you have to have FTP access or cpanel to see the files? since most of the info is commented out of the actual file?

[gulldarek]

vBulletin should be pre-compiled (for example with Zend compiler) and the only way to add hacks should be extended plugin system.

[Symen_4ab]

Originally Posted by gulldarek

vBulletin should be pre-compiled (for example with Zend compiler) and the only way to add hacks should be extended plugin system.

Hey, and what about my own custom personal little mods to the code ?

Don't want to have to look in the manual to see where this ?+/&?" hook is located

I bought my license, so I want to be able to read the code and make modifications to it.