I don't know all the illegal resellers that tried to sell the code.
The ones found or reported were warned and most of them stopped
delivering this scripts. Some purchased resell rights (available for
that version) and upgraded the sold licenses to the latest versions.

The early version (2.0) that spread was in development and had many
problems. Also when trying to modify it to look different that the
original script, the resellers broke some important functions in the
code.

Versions History:
http://www.datingagent.biz/versions.html

Demos:
http://www.datetopia.com/datingagentpro/
http://www.datingagent.biz

Now we distribute version 3.7 (Dating Agent III) with source code
and 4.9 (Dating Agent PRO), 5.2 (Dating Agent BiZ) encoded.

--- In datingscripts@yahoogroups.com, "Al" <ali_21_2001@y...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When you mentioned that the first Dating Agent script was being
sold
> on Ebay for $5.00, did you mean the one being sold by Deep Blue
> Computer Services? I ask this because I bought one such script on
CD
> last year from this seller on Ebay, and had a lot of problems
> customising it (e.g. could not access the members' photos to
resize
> them to speed up the downloading etc.).
>
> After being so dissatisfied with the script, I removed it from my
> site at www.abeautifuldate.co.uk. However, I now need a new one,
> instead of having to rely on affiliate links all the time.
>
>
> --- In datingscripts@yahoogroups.com, "NTM@D..."
> <datingscripts@d...> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Encryption is a must in this business.
> >
> > The first dating script from Datetopia was Dating Agent (early
> > version). It was delivered with 100% source code for
$99/license.
> > Many licenses sold fine but the sales almost terminated in few
> > weeks. I found the reason on ebay. I found illegal resellers
> selling
> > it for $5 on ebay :) .
> >
> > Now we provide Dating Agent III (v3.6) with source code for only
> $69.
> > All the other scripts are delivered encoded using a custom made
> > system that encodes php code leaving the html parts unchanged.
> >
> > As you noticed, encryption causes problems with customization.
We
> > tried to solve this problem with our latest product (
> > http://www.matchagency.biz ). It allows full editable profile
> > attributes, categories, multiple languages directly from the
> > webmaster area.
> >
> > Also the layout templates, configuration files, payment
> integration
> > parts for all our scripts are provided with source code.
> >
> > Regards,
> > NTM
> >
> > Datetopia.com
> > --- In datingscripts@yahoogroups.com, "ravenslade"
> <ravenslade@y...>
> > wrote:
> > > We have spent many hours trawling the web searching and
finding
> > > dating or matchmaking scripts. We have found that alot of them
> are
> > > trying to add to many fancy features instead of actually
> spending
> > > time on making the ones they have even better.
> > >
> > > We have gathered information that alot of people that use
these
> > > sites like the basics of adding a profile and photo, many
don't
> > like
> > > the photo rating system as it puts added pressure on them to
be
> > one
> > > of the 'Gorgeous' set. Being able to message, email, chat,
send
> a
> > > kiss and a good search facility are all good.
> > >
> > > Another area that causes problems is encryption. Although we
> > > understand that the people that build these scripts need to
> > protect
> > > their work it does cause problems when the 'Buyers' of these
> > scripts
> > > want to design their own site setup, and if for instance on
> > > the 'Register', or 'Profile' pages you can't add extra choices
> > > because of this encryption.
> > >
> > > This is just a basic overview and do think that these script
> > > writters should take on board some of the people that buy
their
> > > scripts and get their feedback to help in design and
development.