being attacked

ok. I purchased a dating script yea. now the owner of the script said that I cannot install more than 1 instances of the script on the same domain!.

I installed it like this :

www.datingsite.com/england
www.datingsite.com/france

. Am i not in my god damn right to decide how many instances of the script i install on it since i purchased it ? Its one server, one domain . he tryner rip me off. am i in my legal right to tell him to shuv it up his ass ?

 

tell him to go to hell and spend a bunch of money taking you to court

 

If those are his terms and you agreed to them then he is right you can't do that. If you didn't agree to any terms I don't see it being a problem. that's just bad business on his part though.

 

No, that is a fair and indeed common practice in script licensing. Assuming the owner had a Terms of Service or similar agreement that you had to recognize and accept before acquiring the script (This means checking an "I accept the ToS" checkbox or something to that effect) the owner may enforce these terms.

If you choose to ignore the owner's notification, either you or your web host may receive a DMCA notice.

Keep in mind that even Jelsoft Enterprises (vBulletin) has very similar restrictions in place. It's common practice to limit active scripts in this way.

 

The chances of the script author doing something that will actually affect you (besides legal threats) is pretty slim. However, like scriptman said, if you did agree to some Terms of Service before, you do need to abide by them.

 

Assuming his web host is DMCA compliant, the owner could quite easily have tapalapa's website(s) knocked off the internet pretty quickly - Within a day or two at no expense to him.

 

You agreed to that when you purchased the script. If you didn't like the terms, you should have purchased elsewhere. That having been said, have you checked to see if there are package deals for multiple installations? You might just be able to get a price cut that way.

 

thanks. i'll tell him to i dont care. I have a colocation server that i rack up myself. he can send as many dmca woteva notices, am my own host.

 

Check the TOS on the script and follow the wording closely:

If the license says you are licensed to install this script on single domain then you should be allowed (as per the TOS) to run multiple instances of the script on the one domain.

If the license says you are permitted to run 1 instance of this script on a single domain then you would need to heed to the developers TOS and only install one instance.
If that is the case I would investigate if you are able to create a modification on the existing script to facilitate multiple countries and such.

 

zoobhost is right, you need to ask them or you need to get the tos of the script since its very important for you to read, because its hard for you when you are violating the tos since you purchased it.

 

Correct advice.

Can you link to his TOS for us to read?

EDIT: Wait....is this spam because BOTH links are parked pages. That's not cool..

 

Meh he is right. But if the script isn't encrypted it can be nulled so null it and then send him the links to piss him off. Just make sure you have some nice offshore hosting