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Copyright Removal

Started by Xarcell, February 04, 2012, 02:48:10 AM

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Illori

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if you are using 2.0 you can do what you want, but the team could consider it copyright removal and not provide you support. if you are using 1.1.1* you can not modify the copyright in anyway.

French

So is´t allowed to place an image in the Footer.When the copyright text isn´t clickable anymore.
For example something like this.

The resized version

Deaks

technically thats allowed, issue for that is that Simple Portal will have a nice day taking legal action as that is aainst there license.  However why would you want to do that?
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Quote from: RunicHowever why would you want to do that?
Not for meself  ;).........Just react to
Quote from: XarcellI learned that spam-bots scan sites with the SMF copyright, then submit it to a directory where marketer's sign up to spam it with links to the sites they were paid to promote

IchBin™

Actually spam bots scan for much more than copyrights these days. Your better off putting things into place to prevent registration etc. There are plenty of mods to help with these issues.
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Kindred

yes... that whole story about spambots or hackers searching for the copyright statement is just so much BS...  (and hiding the version number is not any form of "saftey" either) there are a dozen other (and more effective) ways to figure out what software a site uses...  then again, it's not like they even care. I get hack/spam attempts on Wordpress and phpBB type urls, even though I have never run either of those softwares.

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including all populair softwares like : joomla,mambo,wordpress etc..etc.. bots get smarter but its temporily good to disable registration and install httbl,stop forum spammers and get the prober API key's for some of those mods install the API's and then you enable th!e right mods before you enable registration again...

did a few tests and seems to work properly just got one spammer in 30 days and was blocked :P

and if ya can dont try to use caching will help a lot !
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busterone

True. I don't get a live spammer make it past the defenses but once in a rare while. I see all sorts of Joomla, VB, Phbb, wordpress, and various other types of probes repeatedly and I have never had any of those scripts on this account before.  The SMF copyright is there with version number. I really don't believe that the copyright being visible has any bearing whatsoever on the amount of bots visiting a site myself.

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