Let-off for £10m video game pirates

Two video game pirates who cost the industry £10 million have been spared jail. Steven Trump, 49, and Paul Carloss, 52, ran a ‘bittorrent tracker website’ called Blackcats which helped users gain and share access to games for free. Prosecutor Jane Carpenter told the court the site was set up by Trump in 2006. ‘Mr Trump was the owner of the website and domain. ‘Mr Carloss began as a member but was trusted with a managing role and became responsible…

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