UK courts crackdown on piracy

John Lamb of Llanharan (Southern Wales) was recently sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment after pleading guilty to 30 counts of trademark and video recording offenses.  He was caught with a reported quarter of a million pounds (that's like $460,000!) worth of merchandise that he was selling on the Internet right from his home.  He'd already been arrested once on similar charges, but incidentally thought little of it, and headed right back to his 'business'.  The second time around Lamb wasn't so lucky.  "This is the longest prison sentence ELSPA has ever seen handed down to a games pirate" (Roger Bennett, ELSPA director general).