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PTsideshow:
They are a money making group, in the future they are hoping to turn it in to a e magazine. When you respond to the email or street address regarding the material on the site you are responding to their copyright lawyers offices. They have ways of slowing down the process and will wear out your health and wallet in silly litigation, let a lone any obscure laws in their local or yours you may have broken. With nasty emails, wording not used in mixed polite company, or posting unacceptable photo's or links to same. They can farm the case out to a local to you lawyer, that can on speculation of a monetary return, write you letters and file papers against you in your local court. That will require you to hire a lawyer. The can keep getting postponements as to take every dime in your wallet having your lawyer answering their letters!
The best course of action is to get over it and move on. As they pay their lawyers by the year retainer and the lawyer has their secretaries address their standard letters to you and send them out.

The small time or little guy rarely wins in the long run, when dealing with lawyers, let alone with a section of the law that is so murky and unclear as copyright regarding the internet and international laws.

GET OVER IT AND MOVE ON!

AdeV:
[computer-geek]

Passwords in SMF (and vBulletin for that matter) are encrypted using a one-way encryption - i.e. you cannot decrypt the password from its encrypted form.

Ironically, in practice, this means that several passwords could have the same encrypted form! However, the resulting encryption is usually a 32 character hexadecimal number (irrespective of how many characters your password started off at), and it's specifically tailored to be wildly different for only slightly differing passwords (e.g. "fred1" as a password would have a much different encrypted value than "fred2").

For those who are interested, a quick Google on "MD5 encryption" will tell you all about it.

In essence, MD5s are encrypted using a second, fixed, password. Since the password is different in vBulletin compared to SMF; the same "your password" in both systems will actually produce a different hash value (that 32-byte hex number). Which is why they had to re-set everyone's password; because they simply were not able to transfer them; or re-encode them.

[/computer-geek]

mzt:
Ade,

thank You for the details.
Marcello

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