Pirate Software Linked With Organised Crime
News Counterfeit software has been linked with organised crime and drug pushing by the European Leisure Software Publishers' Association (Elspa) following a series of raids by drug investigators in the UK.
[November 23, 2000, 6:08]
ECTS: Let's Hear It For The UK Games Industry!
News ELSPA spokesman Steve Cheese told GameSpot: "About 18 months ago, everybody in the government was running around shouting, 'The Full Monty! In a white paper published Monday by ELSPA, the trade body set out a specific shopping list of requests for...
[September 8, 1998, 9:17]
UK Gamemakers Take A Hit, Despite Record Sales
News New figures from the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) showed sales of game software hit 39.5 million units last year, making the market worth £924m. The UK is the world's third-largest game software market, according to...
[January 19, 2001, 13:55]
Games Industry Guns Down Brain Damage Claims
News In a statement released on Wednesday the European Leisure Software Publisher's Association (ELSPA) says that research carried out at the Tohoku University in Japan was only of "very limited focus". ELSPA believes it is not true that playing video...
[August 22, 2001, 17:26]
UK Government Minister Joins Pirate Raids
News The investigation that eventually resulted in today's raids was a joint initiative between the Entertainment and Leisure Software Association (ELSPA) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). According to John Hillier, manager of ELSPA's anti...
[December 4, 2002, 16:42]
Seven Arrested In Car Boot Software Swoop
News Operation Carter, involved representatives from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), Staffordshire Trading Standards, Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT).
[October 19, 2005, 15:35]
Police Smash UK's Biggest Pirate Software Operation
News In association with Birmingham City Trading Standards and investigators from the Crime Unit at European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), the police raided a commercial computer shop in the Stetchford area of Birmingham.
[November 16, 1999, 11:53]
Games Industry Rejects "violence" Claims
News Siding with Carmageddon's developers, the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) insisted that marketing is appropriately placed in mens magazines, gaming magazines and on TV after the 9pm watershed -- a claim not entirely borne...
[December 7, 1998, 11:58]
New Age Rating System For Games In Europe
News The new IFSE age rating system will replace the existing voluntary age rating system in the UK that was introduced by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) in 1994. This is a very important development in that the...
[October 25, 2002, 12:19]
Software Fraudsters Escape Raid
News We had targeted some software stalls that we were aware of and we had someone there from ELSPA [the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association] who looked at some stalls, however, they left the market before we arrived there," said...
[January 6, 2006, 12:30]
Film Censor Dragged Into Legal Row Over Carmageddon II
News will be released with an ELSPA 15 rated "Zombie version" - a diluted alternative to the intended release. SCi and the British Board of Film Classification BBFC are squabbling again over the ratings of the controversial Carmageddon game.
[October 22, 1998, 8:47]
BBC Claims Computer Piracy Costs UK £3bn A Year
News According to Roger Bennett, director general of the European Leisure Software Publishing Association (Elspa), ten copies of a game are pirated for each one sold legitimately. A BBC investigation into copyright violation has found that the UK...
[April 10, 2001, 13:52]
Date Set For Games Age Rating System
News The new IFSE age rating system will replace the existing voluntary age rating system in the UK that was introduced by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) in 1994. A European new age rating system for computer games...
[January 2, 2003, 9:08]
Study Links Violent Games And Aggression
News Roger Bennett, Director General of the European Leisure Software Publisher's Association (ELSPA) agrees that more research needs to be done, but questioned Anderson and Dill's work. Based on two studies by researchers Craig A.
[April 26, 2000, 11:49]
