QUESTION What are the risks of working freelancing with nulled scripts?

[xCrow]

I live in a 3rd world country, web development agencies are expensive and websites are mostly ugly old fashioned and developed by overpaid, underqualified devs. so I thought
I'd use nulled scripts to create better / cheaper websites for young entrepreneurs and local business owners to make a quick buck.

I wanted to ask how likely it is for this to backfire, for the original developers of the scripts to know and sue for infringement. the clients would mostly be local business owners, young entrepreneurs who operate locally in an a 3rd world country that still has strict rules about international payment and doesn't facilitate it.

I wanted to ask someone experienced that knows more about this than me or even tried something similar.

 

[flopas10]

If you’re talking about GPL stuff, then you’re basically fine.

The PHP code from Themeforest/Codecanyon/many others is GPL, which means you’re allowed to use it, modify it, and even sell work built with it. That’s literally the point of GPL. There’s nothing illegal about that, no matter how much some devs cry online.

You can see scary comments like "illegal" or "this is piracy," but 99% of the time that’s just devs who either don’t understand GPL or don’t like that it applies to them too. They benefit from selling on huge open source marketplaces and then act shocked when the rules work both ways. Legally, it can’t really backfire on you.

What can bite you is only practical stuff like updates for nulled releases being months behind on versions, or disappear entirely.

 

[xCrow]

If you’re talking about GPL stuff, then you’re basically fine.

The PHP code from Themeforest/Codecanyon/many others is GPL, which means you’re allowed to use it, modify it, and even sell work built with it. That’s literally the point of GPL. There’s nothing illegal about that, no matter how much some devs cry online.

You can see scary comments like "illegal" or "this is piracy," but 99% of the time that’s just devs who either don’t understand GPL or don’t like that it applies to them too. They benefit from selling on huge open source marketplaces and then act shocked when the rules work both ways. Legally, it can’t really backfire on you.

What can bite you is only practical stuff like updates for nulled releases being months behind on versions, or disappear entirely.

Very helpful, thanks because I looked in other places like reddit and such and they make it seem like it's some sort of unforgiveable crime where I'll most likely be caught and sued for infringement and that all nulled plugins have malware which never really happened to me personally but i'm afraid to give people malwares

 

[Techrad]

Very helpful, thanks because I looked in other places like reddit and such and they make it seem like it's some sort of unforgiveable crime where I'll most likely be caught and sued for infringement and that all nulled plugins have malware which never really happened to me personally but i'm afraid to give people malwares

Buddy, you can Vide Code an entire website, for free, in minutes..
Or, get an online firm, it doesn't matter where you live.

 

[zqdevelopers]

I live in a 3rd world country, web development agencies are expensive and websites are mostly ugly old fashioned and developed by overpaid, underqualified devs. so I thought
I'd use nulled scripts to create better / cheaper websites for young entrepreneurs and local business owners to make a quick buck.

I wanted to ask how likely it is for this to backfire, for the original developers of the scripts to know and sue for infringement. the clients would mostly be local business owners, young entrepreneurs who operate locally in an a 3rd world country that still has strict rules about international payment and doesn't facilitate it.

I wanted to ask someone experienced that knows more about this than me or even tried something similar.

You can create a complete, professional UI using Google AI Studio, which is completely free. After generating the UI, you can download the source code and continue development using another IDE such as Tare AI (which is very affordable—around $3 for the first month). Alternatively, you can use ChatGPT Codex, which currently offers a free Business plan for the first month.


These tools can then be used to build the backend and complete the project efficiently. However, it is important to have at least basic to intermediate knowledge of coding to ensure smooth development and proper integration.

 

[xCrow]

@zqdevelopers , @Techrad Thank you guys, it's also good to know that. using nulled scripts for a web dev service can save a lot of time and effort and I want to make sure it won't backfire if I were to do it whether it's legal problems or any other issues. Originally I'm a software developer so I'm not used to selling websites. your help would mean a great deal