Electronic Theatre reports on the first UK raid of 2009, which resulted in four computers with burners and more than 1,000 illegally copied games being seized – including 700 Xbox360 games, 300 Wii titles and 100 PlayStation2 games.

A raid at a Staffordshire house has resulted in the apprehension of an unemployed man who operated an illegal chipping service on several websites – all linked to Gumtree.com, a classified ads and community site. In an intelligence-led operation involving Staffordshire Trading Standards and investigators from ELSPA (the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association), the home of an unemployed 30 year-old man was raided this week.

kevcothirtythree via electronictheatre.co.uk »