vBulletin Assholes

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I then received this email back the same day.

<email>
Received:12/8/02 9:47:12 PM
From: antipiracy@vbulletin.com
To: "Daniel Harris" <>
CC: licensing@vbulletin.com
Subject: RE: vBulletin Software Licensing


December 8, 2002

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for removing the unlicensed copy of vBulletin.

While we much prefer that a site purchase a license (as over 600 web sites
have done in the past six months), having a site remove the unlicensed
software (as you & a thousand or so other webmasters have done in the past
six months) is preferable to our having to take formal legal action and
have a site shut down for copyright infringement (as we have done in
several hundred other cases).

Regards,
Chuck Gurley
</email>

OMG! 600 in the last 6 months? As I write this, our last 7 days of downloads has been 3187. 3187 people have downloaded our software in the last 7 days... not last 6 months. Now, I know in November we had over 3 million hits to the webpages, mostly to our forums. I guess we are more popular than them. But wait, it gets better.