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I am using ips4 4.0.7 and it is legitimately bought from ips. I am wondering if i use a nulled version of something like ip content / pages, will that affect my paid subscription of ip. board?

@Kingy has said what you need to know. But tell me, what you will get out of your 'PAID SUBSCRIPTION' ?? I am telling what you will get: You will not be able to upgrade until & unless you pay IPS. You have to renew your license in every six months. If not, your license will expire and then your copy of IPB will be as good as an illegitimate software except you have an expired license (I don't know what good it will make :-/ ) If you want to upgrade, you have to pay what they will charge, moreover you have to pay for some apps which were part of the main application. So, in gist, they will suck your hard earned money like a blood sucker as long as you would use that 'licensed copy', whether you upgrade it or not. If you decide not to upgrade, then your forum will be vulnerable to attacks. In return of your money, what you will get? You will get some advice (support) for not to do this-n-that because it will revoke your license. How ridiculous. Now what you will get if you use nulled version ( I cannot guarantee other than WebFlake releases): You will get a latest IPB forum with all core apps installed. You can do whatever you want with your copy. You can even re-engineer the core files if you have that expertise. No one will prevent you. You will get much more support here than IPS. You will get all of these at FREE OF COST. O yah, you can obviously donate a little but that is up to you and not mandatory. Now you decide, which one is better.

Which version do you use? I have used all the version released in WebFlake starting from 3.4.9 and never had any issue. Because in most of the cases, uploaders null the versions by themselves and they do it for us, who always doesn't have money to pay for every little single bit of IPB. And these uploaders buy legit versions and then they null it by themselves. These coders do this out of sheer passion of helping people, not to take advantage of them or to steal their data. Once I experienced such an incident like you on a free server, but then I was using Joomla. After thorough search, I saw that they were inserting a javascript to do that. I delete entire thing and changed to a paid server. So, the problem was on the server, not in the script I was using. Yours might be a case like that. Yes. It is safe as long as you use the WebFlake versions. I use the 4.1.9 and it's superb.

I have a question... From what I saw, when your license expires their system remember what is last version of ip board you had right to use before your license gone dark. I don't use my board a lot anymore, and I can't make myself pay every six months for something I don't use, payed for a year and didn't used forums at all. Now, friend and me are thinking to start a small guild, my license expired about two weeks ago ... is there a possibility to use newest retail version of IPB board while your license is inactive, or only way is to go with nulled (and if that is only way, is it safe if you don't use their support) ? I don't use IP support, I have board+gallery (I have also five man free chatroom but honestly I don't need chat and I'm not using it anyways).