Why are vb.org's mods getting ripped/redistributed?

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Shelley_c

And what about the people that you've added to your licensed account? For them to have access to the scripts here they would need to know the license holders acount id which poses extra sercurity risks to the software you've bought.

Attaching a license to a user here does not mean that you give access to account IDs. It is paired by email, you must know the email for you that they added and authorized.

[basil2070]

Piracy of anything, including modifications, is bound to happen. All I can say is I wish people didn't do that, but that's just the way it is. I don't see piracy ever stopping, same as with I don't see general crime stopping anytime soon as well.

[Shelley_c]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

Attaching a license to a user here does not mean that you give access to account IDs. It is paired by email, you must know the email for you that they added and authorized.

I know that KK, what the guy is proposing is to implement additonal sercurity by having users here download content by inserting their customer number. And anyone added by e-mail to a persons license would also need to insert that licensed members customer number to download content here. Firstly, just to download content here it would pose additonal sercurity risks if somene is added to your license via e-mail. And secondly,I wouldn't trust this site holding my customer number and lastly, it's not your content and/or jelsoft to implement this suggestion.

what I'm saying is, the people listed on your license would need to know your customer number if content could only be downloaded by inserting your customer number.

[King Kovifor]

I guess I missed that post, in that case, I would be highly against implementing such a system.

[Brad]

Originally Posted by CodingMonkey

Brad, just because you think there is no backholes, that isn't quite right. There's always a backhole in every script that has some kind of advanced processing system...

If it's nulled, chances are the script kiddies that nulled it left a backhole to hack their own software and gain control of the board that they didn't make. I've seen it numerous times.

[high]* Brad will not be replying anymore to this topic - it's becoming stupid.

[/high]
Run away from the argument if you want but it doesn't change the fact that I am right. There are plenty of warez copies floating around without "back holes" in them. Anyone can confirm that by downloading a warez copy and comparing it to a legit copy from the member's area with Beyond Compare.

You obviously don't spend much time around the scene (which isn't a bad thing). If you did you'd know that most real deal groups pride themselves on releasing good software. On that note most real deal groups wouldn't waste their time on "cracking" vBulletin anyway..there is really no challenge in it after all.

What you're getting are second hand warez copies (someone took a good release and placed a backhole in it) or something released by a shady group that isn't well known (because if they were they wouldn't risk their reputation on releasing crap).

[lasto]

they always come out with backdoors/viruses etc to frighten people to not use warezs versions.
Ive used nulled versions before and never had any problems and as brad says in the scene there are respectable groups who pride themselfs on what they do and if there was backdoors then it would`nt be to long before someone found them.
Anyway we getting away from the intial thread which is why are vb.org getting ripped :

Well it like everything - we get ripped off big style on here and what happens - nothing
Same as when people copy hacks from here to somewhere else.

Live with it is the attitude i think.

[Shelley_c]

Perseverance is the way to go lasto. There's absolutely nothing wrong with sticking to your guns despite what anyone says. When the day draws to a close you'll gain a lot more respect despite the feeling of being worn, torn and thrown to the dogs. Am I making much sense? probably not though I know what I'm trying to say.

Ps. Nice sig.

[Xphusion]

with some treacking down i think i found AAA webhosting provider

Malaysia WebHost (i tracked this webhost down according to the whois info on their site i just tracked the nameservers down and it lead to this host..

http://www.tm.com.my/business/small-...pn-premier.asp

and according to this they might not be so safe after all considering malaysia does have copyright laws

http://www.lawyerment.com.my/intelle...opyright.shtml

just some info that i have tracked down by research incase someone wants to try and stop these fools

ya know, you worked for nothing... all these informations are well known to everybody, and spreading them on this forum would help nobody...

actually, the AAA is not a problem here, as the only thing they do is re-release what is supposed to be free...(ok, if you do not count the paid scripts)...

they are not ripping the work of others for profit, they do not lie to others saying it's their own work, and they do not try to invent a new world...

the problem comes when we see a coder who steal someone else's work and ask to be paid for it. I just had someone paying a fortune for one of iTrader's addon that was in the graveyard... the guy who did that is the one who is to be pointed at... because all these addons are for free on my site, and i never charge for them.

[Shelley_c]

Nexy, simply because the scripts and graphics are free doesn't mean they aren't doing it for money. With the amount of modifications they steal from here they can demand donations (which they do). You think your work (generally speaking) is any better than the person who is providing it for free. And lets not forget, you deal with the AAA to have them not distribute your scripts which kinda explains your response in a nutshell in your opinion that it's not a problem.

What you should have said it's not a problem for you personally because you have negotiated with the staff/admins.

Your word is not gold, nor is it final and if somebody wants to press to get AAA kicked off their host or sue they are very much entitled to do so despite your own personal opinion.

Yes, I read over there, and have had attempts by them to steal my styles and bumped into numerous threads of yours gloating to other members about being protected. It's nice when it doesn't happen to you, your opinions can span a wider spectrum and point out to others how wrong they are.