10 Promoting Illegal Activities (4 or 8 points)
Posts that promote violation of the law are not allowed. Violation of the law includes, but is not limited to:
* Obtaining or providing copies of copyrighted works or modifications to copyrighted works without permission from the copyright holder. This includes pirated games, pirated music, pirated videos, altered game executables, pirated operating systems, etc.
In the case of Total War games, it includes any unmodified game files.
* Obtaining or providing ways to circumvent copy protection. This includes no-CD hacks, key generators, hacked ROMs, etc.
* Cheating in online games, or otherwise violating license agreements.
* Possessing, distributing, or using drugs in a way that would be illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g., owning marijuana).
"Promoting" illegal activity includes, but is not limited to:
* Asking for someone else to commit an illegal activity (e.g., asking for a cracked game).
* Assisting someone else in an illegal activity (e.g., linking to a site that distributes cracked games).
* Encouraging or advocating an illegal activity, or portraying it as normal or acceptable (e.g., casually mentioning that you have pirated games/smoked pot/etc. as though this were normal and acceptable). Exceptions will be made for threads that are devoted to serious discussion of illegal activities in an abstract sense (e.g., about whether copyright law should be relaxed or marijuana should be legalized), on a case-by-case basis.
What exactly qualifies as illegal depends on jurisdiction. When jurisdictions differ on whether something is legal, moderators will decide on a case-by-case basis which jurisdiction to follow.