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For everyone else to know what happened, if you care or if it even seems to be a big deal:
I, myself, as a web administrator, created a spoof of AD exact for exact without the members nor the posts. Just to see if I was capable of doing so. Nothing illegal was done as 99.9% of the forum CSS styling template of Jelsoft Vbulletin provides the coding for template modifications. The only .1% of copyright infringement was that I took the Alldeaf logo and added the words "FAKE" on it. Here's what it looks like:
There was no one on my board except for 4 testing accounts that I created, and one friend who was bored to come take a look. That was IT.
Then, one day, a week later.
I noticed a member I knew had been banned. Not knowing why, I asked him to visit my site to explain what happened, NOT seeking justice for him. Since I saw the banned next to his name.
He explained, I asked a member to come see what happened, instead I was reported to the moderators for creating an illegal site, leaving me in "what the --?" after I saw a PM come in regarding illegal actions. I sent this member a PM back, not once, but twice, asking why did he do this, as this wasn't what I asked for. The said member decided not to reply to question me about my ethics, and continued whatever he was doing. During that point, I assumed this person would go to authority above a friendship, so I decided I didn't need to become acquainted with people like this and severed ends. That was that, I did not go around trying to make a deal out of it.
As an aftermath of the reporting the violation,
I then spent 1.5 hours discussing with 6 moderators and an Administrator explaining my actions in front of all of them in real time. I asked later if the admin would like to proceed with charging me guilty of altering the logo, but it was dismissed. Then as a result of that discussion, overall, I was dismissed from initial charges.
Now I don't know why we are bringing this up again????
This is the absolute final word I have here.
If anyone wants revisit the decision or appeal it to ban me or naishojr for the acts of "what I did", feel free to do so.