LOMCN used to run of a ilegal copy of VBulletin..
They got caught and was forced to buy a legal version or remove VBulletin.
Thats as far as i know anyway....
Think its because they send packets back to VBulletin so they can see if its a none registered ilegal version or a purchased legal version..
Surpose you could edit the files to stop this, yet if someone wanted to they could report it and you would probebly be in more trouble for changing whats inside the files, stopping them communicating.
/Tofas