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Gamescom was a great opportunity to speak to all kinds of people in the games industry. But from Yves Guillemot to small indie developers, one theme regularly emerged when you talked about Nintendo’s DS platform – piracy.

Two and a half year sentence for man convicted of running ROM sharing site

Infamous BitTorrent site must cut off access for users from the Netherlands within 10 days

Internet café firm Global Gaming Factory X pays $7.8m for controversial BitTorrent service

Jammie Thomas-Rasset found guilty of wilfully violating copyright on 24 songs

Pro file-sharing political body captures 7.4 per cent of Swedish vote in European Parliamentary elections

EA’s yet-to-be released title suffering more than 2008’s most pirated title Spore

Swedish court case thrown into turmoil as Ulrika Ihrfelt’s is removed following further bias allegations

CEO Cevat Yerli says the face of games retail is changing; Italian officials might now prosecute

Allegations surrounding judge’s membership of pro-copyright organisation throw conviction into doubt

Sports Interactive MD – and victim of online piracy – Miles Jacobson reacts to contentious court ruling

BitTorrent giant releases special Facebook widget ahead of court case verdict

Defence argues that piracy is “an internet problem, not a Pirate Bay problem”

Owners of Swedish BitTorrent site could be incarcerated; site suffers technical woes

Swedish BitTorrent portal currently in the courts in legal case that could turn the tide

Bethesda’s upcoming post-nuclear RPG appears on illegal file sharing sites three weeks ahead of release

Unusually high numbers of illegal downloads attributed to EA’s strict DRM measures

Gamertags show that consumers are already playing Rockstar’s game ahead of release