Replay stealing has been historically dealt with under the plagiarism rule. Nothing that gets in the book of records has been plagiarized, we're incredibly vigilant about maintaining the truth to that. There are rules in place that emphasize that even taking the opener of an outstanding record will invalidate it, if you wish to break a record you must do it yourself. As for our light hand regarding punishment, we tend to treat things on a case by case basis rather than a outlined guide of what we should do when someone steals a replay. Most instances of replay stealing are incredibly new players who don't really know better and once reprimanded they don't do it again. In other cases users will blatantly lie about the true origin of the replay and become repeat offenders where their threads will be shut down and proper infractions/bans end up being handed out. In regards to the way punishment has functioned in the book of records, we're probably going to have to start being more heavy handed as the new introduction of Record Bounties has caused quite an uproar of greed within it.

I'll bring this up with the other replay board local moderators as I think we've been a little light handed as well.