Piracy

Piracy of Intellectual Property and/or any Copyrighted Material is illegal.

The advertising, promotion or admittance of this illegal act on these forums will not be tolerated in any shape or form.

The various issues are discussed under the DMCA, EUCD, WIPO treaties and under the Berne Convention.

http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Copyright_Directive

http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html

At the Mods discretion, breach of this House Rule may result in a verbal warning, infraction or ban

Any advertising or promotion of any SEGA or Sports Interactive product or the usage of cracks or tools to bypass the copy protection for these products will immediate result in a lifetime ban and any relevant details being sent to the anti piracy departments of both companies.

Any admittance of using pirate version will be dealt with on a case by case basis, but remember if you want to actively support the future development of Football Manager, please do not play pirated copies.