EenVandaag, a Dutch current affairs TV program, recently conducted a survey on their youth's downloading habits. What the survey found was that a whopping 93% of the youngsters download content in a manner that most laws would consider illegal, citing the use of BitTorrent among other popular download programs.

The ESA board must have been reduced to tears of joy yesterday - to them, I'm sure, they now believe there is a god. This week, the Swedish court has found the four operators of torrent site The Pirate Bay guilty as charged for copyright infringement and illegal activities (digitally distributing illegal copies of games and media content). Of course, ESA is more than happy with this victory against the ongoing war on piracy - so happy, in fact, that they had to come up with an official press release about it!

The Wii Experience website was recently contacted by one of their readers, and he had quite a story to tell. The reader's ISP was apparently contacted by the ESA because they found him downloading Nintendo-related material through torrents.

Now, the reader swears it was an old Zelda cartoon, but you never know. The virtual console not only meant the beginning of retro gaming on new consoles, but also ushered in a desire increased security among companies who wanted to maintain their intellectual property rights and not have their titles played illegally by different folks.

That being said, you really should avoid grabbing pirated games. Read the ESA letter after the jump, and stay on the right side of the law, alright?