First of all:

1. I do not work for, nor do I own Buyscripts (the company that makes vShare).
2. I did not block anything from you. I am not a moderator here.

I believe you have mistaken me for the owners of this software. My friend, I am just a consumer here. My statement to you was not an attack on you or your post. Rather, it was a statement stating facts. Fact one being that the player that comes with vShare was before JW/Longtail required licensing and, two, that many people have moved to commercial players (I know this because I have helped tons of people do it). Even though version 3 has a license requirement today, it did not have one when vShare started using it. Thus my point.

Secondly, as I stated before, I agree with your statement in that people should purchase a license if they use the player commercially. However, I also stated that people here probably do not know or care as when they purchase vShare, they usually do not care that part "A" can't be used or part "B" requires a license. All they know is that they purchased something and expect to use it, which is why I made the point to you asking what are you trying to accomplish with your post?

If education is really your intent, then your post would have been worded differently. You wrote a posting attacking people who use vShare when your real issue should be with the developers who chose to use JW in their script. Further, since you state that you do not work for JW/Longtail, why do, or should you, have an issue with what someone else does, especially since you are assuming that most people here do not have licenses. You do not know what other people here have. Neither do I, which is why I don't assume anything. I know from what I see.

As for this being an uncomfortable issue for me, how can it be? As I stated in my post, I have an unlimited domain license for my copy of JW that I use on my own site (that being my primary and my development domains). I purchased it after I purchased vShare. So I don't have any sort of issue. In fact, I even worked with Longtail a bit on troubleshooting their Ad solution when they released it. Directly worked with two of their developers on it.

As for vShare being a stolen script, it actually isn't. vShare started as a commercial fork of another script. There are about two or three known youtube clones that have a similar code base as they all started from the same fork. vShare is the only one from that original fork that is still being developed and maintained.

As for copyright not being an important issue to me, on the contrary it is. However, going after the consumers of a product on a copyright issue is the wrong approach. Rather, if you feel as though it is your duty to point out copyright violations, you should go after the producer. If I bought something from a company that I thought was legitimately able to sell me something and it turned out that they sold me something illegal, I'm not at fault. Rather, it's the person who sold it to me. Case and point, if you purchase an illegal copy of Micrsoft Windows, for example, and it fails WGA, Microsoft doesn't come after you. Instead, they work with you to get you a legal license (normally, they do not charge you). Rather, they go after the person who sold it to you. I know this for a fact because I partner with Microsoft in my daily business.

As for me encouraging people to violate copyrights, where have I done that? I haven't encouraged anyone to do anything. What people do is their business, not mine. If people go out and say they want to integrate something into their site, it is not my job to verify whether or not they purchased a license for it. Unlike yourself, I am not a Copyright Narc. That isn't my job. If they are using something that they haven't paid for, it will catch up with them in the long run. But, it's not my business to do.

As for my mods, I make mods for vShare because I can, not because there is something to gain. Making mods isn't my business. It's something that I do on the site. If vShare were gone tomorrow, it would not hurt me in any way. I would convert my sites to another script and keep going.

As for my hackles being up and my brains being shutdown, that is the most ignorant statement you could post. It is becoming obvious to me that you, CC2 or CopyrightCopy, or whatever you want to be known as, have an agenda that goes beyond education. Your tactics are blatently simple and you are obviously a younger person by your response. The point is that while what you are trying to do is noble, your execution needs a ton of work. You are not going to accomplish anything the way that you are going about it. In fact, the only thing that you are going to do is to get banned or your account deleted by the admins.

As for you stating that you are going to report this to JW, go right ahead. This is your right to do if you feel so strongly about it. No one is going to stop you. I'm sure you are probably not the first person to do so and will probably not be the last.