There's a crackdown on sports piracy - but is it already out of control?

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International Business Correspondent

"Football's Gone Round the Spend!" screamed The People newspaper one Sunday in July 1995. It reported breathlessly that three clubs between them were set to pay out more than £20m on new players.

The highlight that summer was the transfer of Stan Collymore from Nottingham Forest to Liverpool for a British record fee of £8.5m.

That number might not seem too impressive today, in an age when £100m transfers are almost commonplace…