A guy sent me a message today: " Do you want to buy a vbulletin hacked forum script ? I will sell it for 15 $ " What do you think about this ? Can somebody who uses this hacked script be in trouble with his hosting service ?
lolits vbulletin nulled version its available for free on warez sites.. its not legal to use it .. Normally vb takes down the siite
I'd send it to the folks at vbulletin, I'm sure they'd love to get a hold of it... pisses me off it does. I've been hacked and it sucks. Have no respect for anyone that does it.
Search over internet you ll find lots of nulled versions but not fully safe. they can trace easily. buy licensed version.
@MegMania i know about that ! I just wanted to know if they are doing something against this hacks.. This thread was not open for talking about nulled vb's ! I just want some info about the legal thing
They will complain to ur host to take down ur site.. and most host will take down ur site... maybe offshore hosts wont care much
one thing that really annoys me is that warez forums use Nulled Vb's and VB pretty much dont do anything to stop it....
and u did not like warez site have vb, lol ? it's a Truth OMG u have also warez site and u don't like warez, Strange..
Dont get into that crap vB will sue you and take your site down.They are on swing to check the who has valid license and who has not. The warez site owners most of them have their own server platform established. So vB cannot do anything however they can take action against domain thus making site down.
They like to make you think that, but you are are safe using Nulled versions of Vbulletin. They will only go as far as contacting you host to request they take down the site. If your host refuses/ignores the requets, they are extremely unlikely to follow up with legal action. It just wouldn't be cost nor time effective for them to do so when each license only costs a few hundred dollars. It sucks for the legitimate buyers of Vbulletin (like me), but we just have to live with it.
How would it suck for legitimate buyers of VB? They do threaten with legal force, Im not sure if they actually follow up. When I was like 11 I used a nulled vbulletin site for a private forum with like 5 people and somehow they found it. of course, I didn't know it was illegal, I thought it was some sort of free version (due to the way it was given to me) but I took the site down as soon as they asked me too.
vb uses a company called Pirate Reports (http://www.piratereports.com). Howard is the owner and he is a hound for tracking people down. He gets paid for spotting these sites and minimising the number of nulled vbulletin sites in existance...I have had dealings with him personally...watch out for him !
From what we have seen, when a cracker-jack "nulls" a system, they don't clean up everything. Thus, call homes still run and what not. The other issue with nulled versions, aside from being illegal, is that many safeguards have been removed. In many cases, back-doors are added by the cracker-jack hacker. Security essentially becomes non-existent. The bottom line, get it licensed!