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Dorset Police executed two separate search warrants on two houses in the Bournemouth and Poole conurbation in relation to the alleged manufacture and sale of counterfeit DVDs. A property in the Boscombe area of Bournemouth was entered [...]

Seven men and two women have been arrested and are presently detained in police custody following a police operation which recovered thousands of counterfeit DVD’s with an estimated value of [...]

Londonderry shopkeeper Daniel McDaid was fined a total of £200 at Londonderry Magistrates’ Court for selling counterfeit DVD’S in December 2008. In a case brought by the Department of Enterprise, [...]

A 32-year-old man has been fined £400 after a police investigation uncovered a DVD piracy scam he was running. The man was ordered to pay the money, along with £87 [...]

Trading Standards Officers from the London Borough of Bexley and the Metropolitan Police, assisted by investigators from FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), seized counterfeit DVDs and burners in a raid [...]

The Metropolitan Police seized approximately 5,000 counterfeit DVDs after a house search in Brierley, New Addington, Surrey on Sunday (18th January). A 65-year-old woman was arrested after Police and FACT investigators [...]

Lothian and Borders Police have seized approximately 10,000 counterfeit DVDs after a house search in Edinburgh on Saturday (10th January). As well as the DVDs, PS2 games, three DVD burning [...]

A South Gloucestershire man has been made to pay back nearly £6,000, which he was assessed to have made from sales of counterfeit films, games and music as well as [...]

A raid by Lewisham Council, to counter the sale of counterfeit DVDs, has netted an estimated 30,000 fake DVDs. Council officers, a team from the Federation Against Copyright Theft and [...]

Police officers, anti-piracy agencies and the Hull Council Trading Standards took to the streets of Hull to round up known counterfeiters earlier this week (8 December). Behind the scene teams [...]

A large quantity of counterfeit DVD’s with an estimated value of over £200,000 was recovered during an operation involving Strathclyde Police and The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). On Thursday [...]

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has been involved in piloting an innovative anti-piracy campaign that aims to make London a fake free zone by the Olympics in 2012.   The campaign [...]