Hi ,
I hear this word alot these days , what does it mean a nullified script ?? Is it illegal ?? or what ?

Thanks in advance

Its is illegal, it is essentlially a pirated script...

It's a pirated script. 'nullified' usually means that any security measures the software developers put into it have been removed. For example, call home requests, license codes etc.

And yes, 100% illegal. If you get caught using one you may be fined for copyright infringement.

This is a new concept to me. I have never seen one. Where, what or how do you identify one?

I have seen guys offer scripts for sale where they did a screen shot of a directory listing and the word "nullified" was in the name.

Thanks alot for the Info :-)

Originally Posted by colbyt

This is a new concept to me. I have never seen one. Where, what or how do you identify one?

I have seen guys offer scripts for sale where they did a screen shot of a directory listing and the word "nullified" was in the name.

This is actually a common problem. Unwary buyers will often buy scripts from someone they find online unknowing that they actually bought an illegal copy.

The rule of thumb is to always buy directly from the company that develops the product. Do not buy from third parties.

If you are buying a second hand license, then read the terms of service on the products site to make sure you are even allowed to transfer licenses and if there are any special requirements. I would even go as far as to send a support ticket asking the company to verify that the license is legit. It is extremely easy to get scammed online, you need to be extremely careful.

Would it really be illegal? A copyright needs to be registered, and php is open source... you can't copyright the open source code, but you can copyright the non-nullified version since it's got disclaimers and such...

So is a nullified script really illegal?

Looking forward to your comments

It is definitely, in no question illegal. If you can't use a script without paying, then get a few jobs here and there and buy it. An example of how this can be illegal is an IPB forum. There are multiple NULLED scripts for this piece of software and it does cost about $150. You can get in serious trouble for using such a script. Go ahead and try if you feel like testing this. You'll see what I mean when some guy knocks on your door with the papers showing that you're about to loose a lot of money getting sued.

transitnetwork: no offence, but you're so wrong it isn't funny.

1) you do not have to register a copyright. Copyright is automatically bestowed upon you when you create something. By default, the comment I am writing here is copyrighted by me. In some instances, 'registering' a copyright can help in some legal cases, but it is by no means REQUIRED.

2) what do you mean you can't copyright open source code? Of course you can... the ENTIRE basis for the GPL is copyright. Just because you give something away, just because you let someone else do something with what you give them does NOT automatically remove that copyright.

If that were the case, anyone could take Linux and do whatever the hell they like with it. Microsoft could just copy and paste code straight in to Windows. There's a whole website related to GPL copyright violations at gpl-violations.org .

Like I say, no offence, but you have no idea the number of times people like you come up and spout their bull**** theories that are totally wrong. All it does is confuse people!

Please, for the sake of everyone, and to everyone that is wanting to maybe argue this with me: understand what you're saying and what you're talking about.

BTW: just wanted to say... 'initiation by fire'. Don't let this reply turn you off the community here: your very first post just happens to be something that is very near and dear to me!

I couldn't agree with you more TwistMyArm.

Very well said! Rep added!

Originally Posted by colbyt

Very well said! Rep added!

I was ask a lot of time this question I still have no answer

"How they can see thet you use illigal script"


Thanks
Nikolay

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Most companies that code these scripts usually encode them, in which there is some sort of licensing. However that is for the more "higher" and "better" products in terms of what functionalities are available.

What happens in nullified scripts it that the script "Pirate" would take the code and remove that licensing, so the company has a harder time tracking down who is using legal or illegal copies of the script.

What some companies do, such as the one I work for, is we do not use licensing, but our code has special ways of detecting and tracking websites using our software that, fortunately has not been "cracked" by script pirates.

Maybe it's just not worth it? I'm a white hat mind you, but still, if it's out there, it can be cracked. If your software isn't worth the price than you'll not likely get many attacks. VB for example contacts their server to verify itself, I'm not sure when, but I believe it's at install and monthly thereafter. If it's not a legal copy the server tells it to close itself down. You'd have to pretty much rewrite the entire software to remove this though since most of the code is dependent on this. If someone really wanted to spend the time cracking it then they could, but it'd be more worth it simply to work on PHPBB instead.