The problem is that most "warez -site owners" upload a popular bulletin board, import a raped skin, and when it fails, blame everybody but themselves - just like this thread. It stands to perfectly good reason that continually duplicating an idea round and round and round will not yield results. Whether it be vB, IPB, wordpress, blah blah blah. Its all the same shit over and over and over. It is of absolutely no surprise that it fails.
What is actually happening is that you are attracting posters and not downloaders. The reason downloaders aren't interested is exactly as a result of what I just explained.
Be innovative, do not upload a fucking bulletin board. That idea has been RAPED. Design something that is different, useful and most of all, required. For example, I have yet to see a website dedicated to one thing. Its all the same warez-bb dupe, round and round and round. Make a decent movies-only website. And not a god damn default vBulletin install one. If you cant be bothered to learn how to code, then im sorry, but you are destined to fail from the beginning, because there is no way in hell you can be truly unique. Clicking next next next on a vbulletin install does not make you a webmaster, and it certainly won't make you the next kimdotcom.
Lastly, and probably most importantly, if you fail, it is nobody elses fault but your own. The results of this poll only serve to show that only a third of this community are willing to accept that. Blame me, blame megaupload, blame whoever, it still doesnt make it true.