Campaigns to persuade people to stop downloading pirated games or software from the internet are not working, a report suggests.
Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft.
The findings are unwelcome news for the games industry, which says it loses more than £2bn annually from piracy.
The results of the government-funded study were previewed at a games conference in London.
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