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vBulletin sues ex-devs over 'from scratch' competitor

AVC

Internet Brands under investigation by the SEC ?

Bob Brisco has worked his circus magic act "to the T" by cooking the books to keep his stock from selling off, even when it was crashing he worked a deal to "take the company private".

http://thestreetsweeper.org/article.html?c=3&i=1109

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-will-the-lawsuit-affect-customers.5016/page-4#post-85756

It looks like Robert Brisco and his CFO have committed securities fraud with their "creative accounting", if investors need to file a compliant with the SEC there is a direct link in the above linked post.

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AVC
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Smoke and mirrors Internet Brands CEO Robert Brisco

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/internet-brands-claims-against-xenforo.4727/page-81#post-81096

See this post which explains why Bob Brisco is engaging in mudslinging, he is doing it to hide his own blunders and bumbling management style and to shift the blame for his own failures in running his business.

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vBulletin denies busting downloads in paid-up protester ban

AVC

More Internet Brands style lunacy

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?325210-Why-VB4-is-not-available-if-i-purchased-VB3-license-about-30-days-ago

This story is not over, the Titanic is sinking but you can still see the passengers trying to figure out how to save themselves.

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AVC

Mr. Brisco, tear down that wall !!!

Bob Brisco might as well give up on the censorship gig he is running because that is also bad public relations for Internet Brands, a company that owns and operates web chat forums, censorship on Internet Brands forums and now attempting to censor small web publishers lowers even more the integrity of the executive team running the company.

If Brisco had any guts he would get on The Reg and post his rebuttal, that would at least show that the man is taking steps in the right direction.

What he is doing is trying to save his stock from crashing at this point by getting his venture capital buddies to support it, but at this point that is putting good money after bad since he is managing this "vBulletin crisis" so poorly.

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AVC

The only reason Brisco stepped in

CEO Brisco stepped in because his stock lost 37 million dollars in market value in two days, today insiders are propping it up by coming in and buying in an attempt to stop the sell off.

Brisco still has not addressed how vBulletin license owners are going to update their current versions, all the man talks about is how great vBulletin publishing suite is "going to be" (after the customers fund it's development), this is a bombastic approach and as soon as the lawsuits start all the hype and smoke and mirrors Internet Brands can dream up will not help.

This company is going down the tubes, it is just a matter of time.

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AVC

vBulletin customers still in the dark on updates

Here we have a thread on the "official vBulletin forum" where a customer is asking vBulletin officials to give an answer on how they can get security updates and patches, with no answers at all from vBulletin staff.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?323682-So-What-Is-Your-Final-Answer

I guess they are too busy listening to Bob Brisco's crisis control lectures to address the real issues of providing transparency to the licensing fraudulent scheme dreamed up by Brisco and Ray Morgan.

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AVC
Flame

Bob Bristo CEO is now jumping in

It seems that Internet Brands CEO Bob Bristo is now jumping in after the company lost over 37 million dollars in market capitalization in the last two trading sessions on the NASDAQ.

He made a blog post about IB's vision for vBulletin but did not address any of the licensing issues or the fraud complaints, he just rambled on about how much money they are investing in vBulletin CMS and the publishing suite, I guess that is his way to throw some water on the out of control fire.

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Black Helicopters

Free security updates ???

OK Mr. Coward,

Please explain how owned license owners who have not renewed or are not able to renew their existing licenses can get security updates and the latest bug fixes for their forums !!

That or have a vBulletin official post it here since they have banned a lot of their own customers from the "official vBulletin customer support forums", which is also illegal according to the contract since they "claimed" in their license "free forum support" for all vBulletin customers.

Now you tell us some lies and blow some of that Internet brands smoke and mirror voodoo !!!

You see, this is the crux of the problem with Internet Brands and their propaganda, if they would simply tell the truth about customer options instead of trying to force all of us to buy a piece of crap vBulletin version 4 suite of software which was coded by new developers that none of us really trust, none of this would have happened in the first place.

But Internet Brands in the name of cash flow so they could inflated their 3rd quarter earnings report to run their stock and market capitalization up is working fraud and extortion against all vBulletin customers.

This tactic is causing the exact opposite result of their goal, the stock is selling off and the company is going to face over 100 million dollars in legal claims very soon while investors dump this stock, it lost over 9% of it's value last Friday resulting in decrease of Internet Brands market capitalization of $ 32,206,020.00.

I wonder if the claimed "so called vBulletin record sales" (customer extortion) made up more than the value the company lost in the market just on Friday.

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AVC

The lawyers are jumping on board

As I mentioned in my prior posts, Internet Brands will certainly face legal action over this fraudulent software upgrade scheme, their illegal actions of not honoring their contractual obligations have damaged thousands of forum owners.

http://www.thelawprofessor.com/vbulletin-4-forum-upgrade-offer/

I will sit back and wait for the class action lawsuit to start, in the mean time everyone can watch Internet Brands stock fall to nothing in the next few weeks.

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Heart

vB executives are loved by phpBB dev's

Here is the latest trend, move your databases over to phpBB which is a free open source forum software script.

http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=30744&start=0&sid=47cca4ef8a731e8ebbb2ffa267912317

They have a great support forum also:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/?sid=a1ee15df89c8bc0fe2aca7305b60c4ad

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AVC
Pirate

vBulletin version 4 folly continued

vBulletin officials first gave me a "7 day ban to cool off"

Then when they figured out that I was going to expose them and their tactics all over the web they posted this little Gem when I try to log into the highly censored 'official vBulletin forum'

You have been banned for the following reason:

Constant forum violations

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

vBulletin Community Forum

I will discuss matters with the vBulletin crew again, not on their forum, next time it will be in a court of law !!!

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AVC

vBulletin is preventing downloads

Quote:

"vBulletin also denies that it prevented customers from downloading certain software"

Those of us who own version 3 vBulletin can not download security patches or the bug fixes without paying for version 4, this is highly illegal and vBulletin has broke their contract stated in the purchased lifetime licenses if they do not allow version 3 license owners to renew as stated in the contract so we can download security updates.

I am in the process of seeking a law firm to file a class action lawsuit against Internet Brands, please contact me at ForumPostersUnion.com via PM if you are an attorney with expertise in software licensing law.

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Forum king vBulletin muzzles paid-up protesters

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Jobs Horns

Laughing my arse off at this folly

Internet Brands managers have been reading this thread all week:

http://www.forumpostersunion.com/showthread.php?t=8864

I started it right after they banned me from the "official vBulletin Forum", I was the first one to get banned over there under the user name "AVC".

I was banned for insisting that Ray Morgan, vBulletin General Manager resign or be fired by Internet Brands in addition to calling them all what they are, censors and greedy morons who should not be ruining a legendary forum software product like they have done.

I think vBulletin banned me thinking I was the loudest member leading on the mob to attack them, that is fine, because this story is not over by any means folks.

Internet Brands has opened a pandora's box filled with hornets and we all want the former developers of vBulletin to form a new company that we can support and move our forum databases to.

3 of the main vBulletin developers left the company for a reason, now we can see the reason as plain as day.

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