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Piracy cost the UK games sector £1.5 billion in 2010

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kat:
According to MCV, UKIE suggest that pirated games have cost the UK games industry in excess of £1.5 billion!

--- Quote ---The trade body has reported that several publishers have claimed illegally downloaded games could outnumber those sold legitimately by as much as 4:1 – and UKIE director general Michael Rawlinson claims that even a 1:1 ratio would be severe. [my emphasis]
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ratty redemption [RIP]:
wow, that's reallly bad, and are most of those on pc or consoles as well?

kat:
According to an article in PCPro the solicitor at centre of ACS Law and the file sharing fine letter-bomb, he's not quite so hard up as he possibly claimed to get an Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) penalty reduced.

kat:
Update in the ACS Law situation. According to PC Pro the solicitor behind the controversy filed for bankruptcy at the time he was being fined by the Information Commissioner for his conduct;

--- Quote from: PC Pro ---The Information Commissioner's Office was apparently aware Crossley was filing for bankruptcy at the time it reduced the fine, according to a document supplied by the ICO to PC Pro following a Freedom of Information Act request.
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kat:
Yup, according to PCPro the solicitor at the centre of this controversy filed for Bankruptcy so won't be paying the vastly reduced fine he got off with (reduced to £800 from £22,000).

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