The only way to enforce what you are describing at the code level is to encrypt the code, which we are not interested in doing at this time. Otherwise any code-level protections (such as disabling access after a week if no license key is provided) are simply bypassed by the people who upload "nulled" copies.
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The only way to enforce what you are describing at the code level is to encrypt the code, which we are not interested in doing at this time. Otherwise any code-level protections (such as disabling access after a week if no license key is provided) are simply bypassed by the people who upload "nulled" copies.
Beyond that, we are not going to cause this sort of grief for our legitimate customers in the hopes we might stop one or two people using our software illegally. Our clients should always come first.
As for taking down sites using nulled copies of our software, as has been explained above this is not very easy in practice. We have a fairly high success rate, but it isn't as simple as just shooting an email and the site saying "oh this isn't allowed, guess I better take my site down".
I have to admit that the only way you could force IPB license entry is to encrypt the licensing feature in the code. It's impossible to insulate yourself against piracy because someone is eventually going to crack the encryption. The only thing that IPS could do is to file a DMCA complaint against the webhost of the websites distributing or using nulled versions of the forum software. With 3rd party dev Marketplace items such as skins, plugins, hooks ans addons it makes it difficult to even file a DMCA if they are using your item on their site as part of their forum installation because a dev could sell a copy of that plugin, addon or skin and then still file a DMCA claim against the webhost.
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