Too many VBulletin Boards

[Mika]

Well, these last two months I have noticed too many VBulletin Boards around the net. All these guys pay for it? I don't think so. Have you noticed this?

[murat]

i often see ubb
but i dont like ubb

[Bruce]

I don't think so either. Especially the people who put them on their personal pages.

I have access to every version of vBulletin, but it's not like i'd ever use it...

[Mika]

What the creators of VBulletin do to protect their product? I think that is really stupid to place a VBulletin in a site that has just yours grandmothers and family photos. But believe me I saw this some days ago.
:confused: :D

[Bruce]

Well vBulletin does have a call home script inside the admin panel but that can also be disabled.

[meow]

Well, unique it isn't.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Powered+by%3A+vBulletin&btnG=Google+Search

[Weapon]

I guess about 90% of all the vbulletin boards dont have license? thats alot of boards to shut down (if u have the ttime to go through all of them)

[Daniel]

Originally posted by murat
i often see ubb
but i dont like ubb

UBB? I haven't seen those in while since I left DW.

[niv]

Originally posted by Weapon
I guess about 90% of all the vbulletin boards dont have license? thats alot of boards to shut down (if ...[they]... have the time to go through all of them)
The answer is they don't have the time and that's why boards probably like the last one in the google search can exist:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Powered+by:+vBulletin&hl=en&start=760&sa=N

[cheatpark]

How would they shut them down? Its your webspace.

[Mika]

I don't think it's a matter of whom is the webspace. Mainly it depends from 2 things : 1. Who is your host 2. In which country the servers that contain your site are. So I don't thing that it will be easy for the VBulletin's people close a VBulletin that get used from a chinese site, which is hosted in China. And of course don't forget the costs.

[Bruce]

Originally posted by cheatpark
How would they shut them down? Its your webspace.

All they need to do is contact your host.

[niv]

Originally posted by Phrozen


All they need to do is contact your host.
And that doesn't work when you are the host...so they can call in the IFCC FBI. :p

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by meow
Well, unique it isn't.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Powered+by%3A+vBulletin&btnG=Google+Search so there are 268000 vB boards out there!

[Mika]

But you know the FBI thing doesn't work for the whole globe.

[Bruce]

Trust me, if John knows of a pirated vBulletin he'll get it taken down.

[meow]

Doesn't look that way. :rolleyes:
Who's John? Mr. vBull?