EIGHT MONTH JAIL SENTENCE AND £71,000 CONFISCATION FOR COUNTERFEITER
Read More →A man from Wales has been jailed for eight months and ordered to hand over £71,000 he made from counterfeiting DVDs sold via the internet. Nigel Thomas appeared at Swansea [...]
Trading Standards swoops on counterfeit criminals
Read More →Hertfordshire Trading Standards, supported by FACT, has carried out further raids as a result of the major operation against counterfeiting at Bovingdon Market in April this year. On Wednesday 25 [...]
UK cinema staff rewarded for preventing piracy
Read More →17 employees from cinemas across the UK have been presented with awards totalling over £7,000 for their efforts in preventing illegal recordings taking place. Illegal recordings of films are the [...]
Website owner guilty of conspiracy to defraud
Read More →Anton Vickerman, who set up and ran one of the world’s most visited pirate websites, surfthechannel, attracting more than 400,000 visitors per day and generating advertising revenues of at least [...]
Three sentenced in fraudulent trading investigation
Read More →Following a complex investigation by police officers from Operation Zephyr, targeting serious and organised crime, assisted by FACT, three people have been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court. Full story here
Newzbin barrister struck off for owning site he represented
Read More →A barrister has been struck off and fined after failing to disclose that he was the owner of a copyright-infringing website that he represented during trial – and for posting [...]
Six Arrested in Crack Down on Organised Crime Illegal Trade in Counterfeit CDs and DVDs
Read More →Government IP Minister Supports Anti-Counterfeiting Operation Driven by BPI and FACT Intelligence Investigation into Three Major Manchester Markets Uncovers Links to Organised Crime 28 November 2011, London – Six market [...]
Film Pirate Sentenced | Convicted of Recording and Uploading
Read More →Matthew Lisett aged 32 years from Fovant, Salisbury was given a two year conditional discharge at Salisbury Magistrates Court yesterday (Thursday 16th November 2011) for film piracy. Following a joint [...]
UK Cinema Staff Rewarded For Preventing Piracy
Read More →11 employees from cinemas across the UK have been presented with awards totalling £7,000 for their efforts in preventing illegal recordings (so called ‘camcordings’) taking place. The Federation Against Copyright [...]
7 years in jail for gang behind UK’s largest illegal DVD factory
Read More →Gang members who ran the UK’s biggest counterfeit DVD factory have been sentenced on 21 June to a total of seven years and 10 months before Southwark Crown Court, after [...]
Three arrested in raid on counterfeit disc factory
Read More →Three people were arrested on Wednesday 26th January, after officers from the Metropolitan Police Territorial Support Group, acting on intelligence supplied by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), raided a [...]
Two men sentenced over substantial fake DVD operation
Read More →Two men have received jail sentences after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Organised Crime Branch dismantled a substantial counterfeiting operation in Newtownards, Downpatrick and Belfast which was generating [...]
