Unlicensed sites

[insanctus]

I have been reading this site for sometime, I have seen people talk about licensed sites and so on. Reporting ones that are not.

My question is this. What do you look for and what are they give aways. If they have a hacked out vb not licensed and they have the license info on bottom the copyright that is, how do you know if they are worth turning in or not?

I see many vb boards and I often wonder it is it legal one or not.

[filburt1]

Anything that's supicious, report. Even if a licensed site is missing the copyright notice they're violating the license agreement.

The dead giveaway for all pirated vBs is that the latest version of vB isn't shown in the admin CP.

[insanctus]

Ya but one can not get to there admin cp.

I just trying figure out how any are found supicious.

I personaly have my licence and in good order but I have no clue what some of the give aways are.

I see sites that use 2.2.2 or something and think why is it not updated but I am sure that can not be seen as a give away.

[Erwin]

If in doubt, report. Jelsoft has a system that checks the URL.

[RDX1]

I put the http:// in there, is that bad

[Chris Gwynne]

Not really NerdNations, they still check them.

I report sites...

That don't have the copyright notice.
Have an earlier version than 2.2.6
Generally look "dodgy"
Have a design that's done by someone else {e.g. vBskins.com} and which doesn't have copyright to them.



... Thank you filburt

[filburt1]

Pretty much everybody right now has a version earlier than 2.6.0.

[Chris Gwynne]

Today at 03:41 AM filburt1 said this in Post #7
Pretty much everybody right now has a version earlier than 2.6.0.

LOL. Shut up I wrote it wrong, thanks for pointing it out though.

[Tony G]

Just the basic stuff, old versions, copyright removal, rap sites (Just kidding ) etc. etc.

[RDX1]

Any site that is run by a psycho...

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