Close This forum to unlicensed Member ?

[Reeve of shinra]

Originally posted by Bane

Just a quick fact. The final deciding factor in my choice to purchase vbulletin was seeing the cool things rangersfan (freddie) was hacking into vB. Seeing the things that could be done to change the base software to make it fit my needs, and that there were people working towards this end constantly.

I AGREE 100% .... The descion for us to go with vB was mostly if not entirely due to the hacking community. In fact, this impressed our main admin enough that we went with vB despite not having a karma hack at that time - the karma hack was a critical part of our forum -- so you can understand how this was wieghed.

[Justice]

Originally posted by tubedogg
These changes were less about stopping piracy (although that's always a goal) but more about stopping the support of piracy. It's one thing for someone to use a pirated board; it's another for that person to come to the support forums and use a Support Team member's time helping with a product they did not legitimately obtain, when the Support person could be spending time on people who actually paid for the product.

[GrAfiX]

I vote no for one reason only... the fact I just paid 160 bucks for some software that I will never need support for but yet only get a year then I'm cut off from all life unless I pay more money ... but what if I still want to hack my VB after that time... Then I'm basically screwed cuase these forums and downloads will be cut off from me unless I shell out MORE money... I have done a lot of hacking to my boards myself but I love to get Ideas and put them into my own page... Like I got lots of Ideas for my Welcome page looks almost like the one here but I only used a few snipets of code from here to make it all... (Avatar and Posts since last visit that's all)... But if it wasn't for having access to these forums I never would have done that...

Now maybe if you work out something to where anyone that has paid for version 2.0+ has access to those sections and when 3 comes out give them only access to 3 or something like that but please don't cut off people that paid a lot of money for a product then cut them off from hacks that other end users made that No VB developer put time into....

Not to support warez but I bet a lot of hacks come from these type of people and were just missing out on those hacks great hacks I've seen some most likely illegal boards that had a tons of hacks other than ones found here...

Oh well just my two cents...

Mike(aka GrAfiX)

more....
Edited this post cause I just read the last few... Closing downloads to unregged is fine to a point... I paid for Vbulletin 2.xxx whatever I think I should have access to those hacks nothing more nothing less... But Closing the whole forums down thats a different story... Let people see what they are missing they will come around to buying it..

[Scott MacVicar]

If your liscence is owned and not leased, you should always have access to these forums and support forums. To get new versions you would simply have to renew members area access.

If your liscence is leased you should automatically remove vBulletin from your servers when the time is up, and therefore should not need any hacks from here.

[GrAfiX]

That makes sense then... I don't expect product updates after a year but would still like to be able to get the ideas to hack the board after my year if I so choose.... Thanks for clearing that up PPN

GrAfiX

[Dark Blaze]

I think that it was wise to enable downloading abilities only to licensed users. As for the forums, I think it's ok as it is currently...

[Dolamite]

i voted no, because i have yet to buy my license, which is coming my way this christmas, thanks to my generous mother

So, I would not have seen all the cool stuff you have to offer....


Although, I suppose that once I become a License owner, my views would change .... and I probably would despise people that hadn't paid the 160 bucks that I (mom ) had to pay.....

which is well worth the cost if you ask me.... vbulletin is really an awesome bulletin board system.... and worth every penny

:stupid:

[derfelix]

Originally posted by PPN
If your liscence is owned and not leased, you should always have access to these forums and support forums. To get new versions you would simply have to renew members area access.

I agree (mine is owned too... since april)
you say should and not WILL !!! Because it is not you alone taking the decision....

Thats why i vote NO!!

[C-B]

no...because, just because there is warez about don't mean they carn't come to a site, they carn't dload anyway so don't shut it of, thats like me saying if you r black you cannot come to my site. but i don't most of my friends r black. so let them come to the site. :stupid:

[nafae]

I dont think it has anything to do with racial issues, and honestly it isnt anything like a racial issue even in comparision. African-Americans aren't illegal, pirating vb is.