The Brief Existence of Share-ee

The site starting making the round this morning on Twitter and before the day was halfway over it was already returning a blank page. Share-ee was the early stages of a forum that hosted pirated copies of ExpressionEngine and commercial add-ons.

I didn’t write about it until now because as someone who also faces constant pirating of my products, I didn’t want to give free publicity to the site. I did, however, snap some screenshots of the site before it was taken down.

I don’t know exactly how the site was taken down but I’m assuming one or more people contacted their host (Bluehost) and complained. Apparently, the idea of sharing commercial software didn’t seem wrong to the person running the site, who commented via the site’s Twitter account (from Twitter for iPad) that they wanted to do something “useful for the poor devs like myself” and asking why we don’t “want some free code?”

Sites pirating ExpressionEngine software and related materials are out there and it’s nothing new. The only thing new here is that the site was completely public and the blatant promotion of it on Twitter using the very common #eecms hashtag.