Resourceful Websites are mostly Illegal?

[gorillanet]

For web developers like me, most of the time the software we require is sold at very high prices. Good scripts alone range from 300$ till the sky!

I have fortunately come across a number of resourefull websites that house a horde of these scripts in 'nulled' packages. Most of the nulled packages come with tons of bugs but these are usually quickly fixable for experienced programmers.

Now, suppose you have yourself a fully functional nulled script whose market worth is 800$. What would you do, deploy it on your host server or use it for practice at home then go get the real thing at 800$?

I know what I'd do...in any case, here are a number of the website addresses...

!SYKE!

After all they have done for me, you really do not suppose I'd be fool enought to post their addresses here do you? PM me if u need em.

[Slothie]

Deploy on home server for testing purposes to see if its worth the $$ I'm gonna spend on it.

Hosting it on the www is pretty much useless as you WILL be caught someday, be it earlier or sooner. Some nullers might just miss out one or two callback functions or they may have webspiders looking around for some html code they have in it etc etc.

[masshuu]

except for forums, ill make anything else i need. i laugh at how companys try to sell php code for huge money, when all you need is a couple weeks and youll make it exactly how you need it.

[warlordste]

yer but not every one can use php so good don't get me wrong why have a hosting site if you can't understand php but its ture

[Livewire]

Deploy local to test if it's worth it.


Cept I usually promptly decide it's not, and recode it myself (the exceptions being SMF and Joomla which I downloaded from a so-called "null software" site - turns out they aren't nulled, they're just free >_<).


Sad part is I've recoded 4 such scripts in the last week that each involved 3 mysql queries. The sad part is the originals all used 6-10 to do the same job; f***ing designers didn't know the first thing about how to group queries together. They did something like "select * from users," then "select * from avatars" and used php to find the users avatar.

Coulda just done "select users.*, avatar.* from users, avatar where users.aviid = avatar.id". 1 friggin query and it does the same thing. Do that twice in the same script and suddenly it's running a lot less queries and doing less of the "have php figure it out" since mysql did the hard part.


It's really disturbing just how much crap software is available online.

[Smith6612]

you can always write your own scripts you know. It's time consuming, but if you go to those very good PHP tutorial sites out there, you can quickly code PHP pages and pretty much make anything you want. Also, I wouldn't download anything that's nulled, hacked, etc, so I choose neither.

[Eentoetsernaast]

I'm working on a project (text based online game) - and I'm making everything myself. If I have a problem - I download a 'free script' and I copy the idea behind the code, but never the code. That way, I know it's 100% bug free (like all my scripts )

[Russ]

Best thing is to do it yourself, that way you KNOW what it does, and how it does it. You'll spend as much time trying to customize an existing one.