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[Ninjadmin]

we got caught using pirated vbulletin software, so that forum has been wiped out by dreamhost

so we are back here for the moment

i just got a pretty harsh email from someone who works for vbulletins intellectual property department, and they were saying that even if we buy the vbulletin licence we probably won't get our posts back

that was a fucking good idea eh?

ideas? do people want to buy vbulletin? i thought it was fun, but i'm a bit pissed off that this happened, and it is something we should have thought about

fucks sake, pre planning prevents piss poor performance

so not only did we lose 2 months worth of posts, we are worse off than we were before we went to vbulletin since we have alienated krs and derian in doing so




my idea is that we do a fundraising drive to buy vbulletin outright since we have the skins and everything,and it was cool, but this time we are not doing anything on the fly like last time

[wraeth]

hey hey

the only reason I know about this is cos I happened to click on a random rugby thread on MATB, just a few minutes ago

I'm not alienated, it's just that TCTE was something special for me, escape from the shit you get everywhere else

TCTE, the concept of TCTE, is yours Ninj

[wraeth]

So did anyone back up the forum? If we get a vbulletin licence, can we restore the database?

[Ninjadmin]

Dreamhost backs up the forum, but this email was very harsh, along the lines of 'even if you did buy a licence then you probably won't get the stuff you made on pirate software back

[Ninjadmin]

DMCA NOTIFICATION OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Date: 13 October 2007

Greetings

I am an agent authorized to act on behalf of Jelsoft Enterprises
Limited who
exclusively own vBulletin, a forum Software.


I can find no record of this user purchasing a site license for this
location http://coolestradio.com/forum/

Please suspend/remove the GUI and files and prevent future abuse.

NB: If at your own prerogative you offer your client an opportunity to
remove the site themselves or purchase a license as opposed to your
removal
or suspension of service, please be aware that Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
whilst happy to respect your goodwill gesture, in no way requests or
requires such action from you and reserves the right to decline the
license
purchase and refund the fee. Copyright protection not revenue
collection is
our primary concern and motivation and some forum content if it damages
others or breaks our AUP is not allowed.


Formality:

In accordance with the provisions the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
of
1998

Please expeditiously "take down" or "block access" to the infringing
material and take appropriate action against the customer to prevent
future
abuse.


Declaration:

I, the undersigned, CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that I am an agent
authorized to act on behalf of the owner of certain intellectual
property
rights, said exclusive owners being named:


Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd., Howarth Lodge, 7 Reading Road, Pangbourne,
Reading, RG8 7LR

I have a good faith belief that the items or materials listed below are
not
authorized by the above intellectual property owners, their agents, or
the
law and therefore infringe their rights.


I further aver that the information contained in the Notice is
accurate.

Software: vBulletin

I may be contacted at:

Pirate Reports
PO Box 36
EAST MOLESEY
Surrey
KT8 9XT
ENGLAND

Tel: 44(0)20 8941 1843
Email: HowardS@piratereports.com

Truthfully,

A. Popa
Investigator
Romanian Office

http://www.piratereports.com

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aware of
the situation. The sender accepts no responsibility for an end users
incorrect registration or failure to do so as the Terms and Conditions
of
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procedure.


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[Ninjadmin]

[Ninjadmin]

firky is going to be taken out behind the chemical shed and shot at dawn

[wraeth]

[Ninjadmin]

i blogged all of the radio shows so that isn't a problem

you know, same as always, there were some cool threads full of pictures and smilies etc

a couple of stories.....

[wraeth]

This piratereports.com is a bit iffy imo if you have a look.

How the fuck did they get on our case?

[Ninjadmin]

i dunno

it's probably 4 or 5 internet geeks sitting in the office all day trawling through the web to find stuff they can shut down......

[wraeth]

[Ninjadmin]

i reckon they must just look at hundreds of sites and check if they are using official software or not

for here we either buy vbulletin or just ressurect this board

vbulletin did have a lot of cool features, but it costs about 300 pounds a year.....

[Ninjadmin]

i just got an email from dreamhost, and it seems to boil down to that we were caught using pirate vbulletin so the forum has been suspended. if we buy vbulletin we could probably get it back, but if we don't cooperate we could have the whole vbulltein account deleted (which includes all the radio shows and tunes we are hosting, blog etc)

[wraeth]

I'm not bothered either way. If vbulletin + a fiver from us all per annum, that's fine by me. If coming back here, that's fine by me too.

What's more important to me is letting everyone know what's going on; big up changing the logo back btw.

[wraeth]

[Ninjadmin]

[carmella chihuahua]

Can chuck in a fiver or tenner if it helps-would be more but very broke at the mo.
Thats a bastard-made me realise how much I like TCTE when it was gone-a bit like parents!
Can't offer much in the way of other help as don't understand much tecchy stuff. sure will all be reet though

[districtline]

50 pounds a year

[tangerinebreem]

[tangerinebreem]

[DrCarnage]

i'd chip in to get a vbulletin licence.

i liked the layout much better

[annakey]

What a bugger. Anything TI can do to help, just say. £300 for vb sounds steep. Have you checked TAZ? There may be a cheaper way of doing it. If you're not a member I'll start a thread if you want. I wonder how vb found out? It could be just bad luck. If it was TI I'd be looking for a vindictive nerd, but everyone loves TCTE...

[Soreenkid]

It wasn't pirated was it? I just thought we didn't have a licence which means no support yada yada

Fuck, that's canny harsh.

It is about £90pa for VB I think.

[Soreenkid]

I reckon someone must have grassed us up as there's no way there would have known.

[annakey]

[tangerinebreem]

[Ninjadmin]

someone has just offered us 50 pounds towards the licence (they want to stay anonymous)

if it's only 90 pounds a year then we should have bought it in the 1st place, for some reason i thought it was a few hundred

ideally we get everyone to put in the same amount, but that may be difficult

i'll look into setting up a paypal account for TCTE after my pizza

[Isambard]

Will put in a rubber Czech for a tenner.

And where is KRS anyway?

[Ninjadmin]

does anyone have a link for the costs etc?

i don't think anyone should chip in more than 20 pounds

and needless to say we need to keep a record of who has put what in on the main forum

[annakey]

[Ninjadmin]

[tangerinebreem]

[tangerinebreem]

[tangerinebreem]

[Ninjadmin]

$160 dollars for an owned licence

that is fuck all, specially in pounds

i reckon we should do that, that's 8 people chipping in 20 dollars, or about 13 pounds

we already have about 4 pledges......

[Isambard]

But get a different colour innit, I got the blue confused with another website I post on.

[wraeth]

I'll chuck in my bit as well

Ninj, can you check the blog - was playing one of t'breem's radio shows just now and it suddenly stopped ... now none of the coolestradio shows can be located by iTunes but I can play em OK from source (i.e. now playing t'breem's OK direct from his podcast).

[Ninjadmin]

[Ninjadmin]

oh and krs has gone back to blogging cos forums were making him angry again (is my interpretation)

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