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Reminder about Software Piracy, Mod chips, Soft mods, Software Cracks, Out of region CD key websites, and more

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As a friendly reminder, discussion of stealing copyrighted material (i.e., piracy) is against the Overclock.Net Terms of Service which you have agreed to by making and using your account here. What constitutes "piracy" may not be clear to everyone; but from this site's perspective, the line is very clear: anything that is a violation of the law, whether you believe that the law if just, fair, or whatever, is a violation of the ToS.

Any discussion of mod chips, soft modding, or any other way of modifying a piece of hardware that allows the use of cracked, torrented, stolen, or otherwise unpaid downloaded/copied games is not acceptable on Overclock.net or in any forum/sub forum.


Posting links to websites that offer inexpensive CD keys out of your region is also not permitted. As that is against Steam's, Origin's, and other gaming platforms ToS which would make that against our ToS as well.

A non-exhaustive list of things that should not be discussed:
  • Any software that disables copy protection and/or disc encryption. This includes any sort of no-cd or other crack program for games and DVD copying software. The Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 2001 explicitly outlaws these types of programs.
  • Any discussion of software that invalidates Shareware/Trialware restrictions.
  • Offering to PM a member a serial number or crack, or asking for same.
  • Any unauthorized use of corporate software.
  • Discussing any websites that offer out of region keys.
  • Using BitTorrent or other P2P networks to optain copyrighted software, music, movies, etc.
  • Discussing any and all methods of cracking game files or any other software, whether you have paid for that software or not.
  • Downloading any copyrighted media (games, music, movies, whatever) without the artist's permission.
Two gaming specific notes about that last bullet:
  • It includes game ROMs used by emulators, downloading ROMs over the internet is illegal. Note however that the emulators themselves are perfectly legal, because they are independently developed software. So you can talk about emulators, just don't talk about acquiring ROMs.
  • It also includes old games. There is no legal concept of "abandonware" despite what you may have seen on web sites devoted to the subject. Unless the original copyright holder explicitly permits redistribution of the old software as "freeware" or, less likely, public domain software, then it remains subject to copyright law.
If you are unsure if what your posting may be allowed or not please feel free to message a moderator, editor, or any Overclock.net staff before you submit your post/thread.

By making sure we keep the site free of potentially illegal discussion, we can ensure that Overclock.Net is here for us to enjoy for a long time to come.

Also remember that all rules stated in the Community Guidelines as well as all guidelines within the Overclock.net Professionalism initialism must be followed in this forum and any sub forums as well as all of Overclock.net and any Overclock.net servers
 
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