• Two men ordered to pay over £19k for illegal Sky Sports

    On Monday 12th February 2018, Mr Carl Furlong, of the Park Hotel, Liverpool was found guilty in his absence of four offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing [...]

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    eBay seller of illicit streaming devices pays £18,000

    A supplier of illicit streaming devices that are pre-loaded to enable the viewing of pirate broadcasts of Premier League football has had to pay thousands of pounds, and cease all future [...]

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    Dutch courts grant injunction against Ecatel for illegal Premier League streams

    The internet hosting provider Ecatel has been ordered by the Dutch District Court in The Hague to stop providing any services that facilitate the viewing of illegal streams of Premier [...]

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    Pub fined £24k for showing Sky Sports illegally

    A Huddersfield licensee has pleaded guilty to six offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports football matches to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. [...]

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    What you need to do about newly discovered computer chip flaws

    A new security threat has been revealed, putting virtually all devices at risk. Apparently, there are a set of security flaws on nearly all computers with chips from Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMC) and ARM.

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  • PSNI seize 50 TV streaming devices in raids

    Detectives from Belfast Criminal Investigation Branch investigating organised criminality have carried out 18 searches across Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, Dundonald and Banbridge in conjunction with HMRC and FACT – the UK’s leading intellectual property protection organisation.

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    Bootle Licensee Ordered to Pay Over £15,000 for Illegal Sky Use

    A Merseyside licensee has been found guilty of two offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports football matches to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky.

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  • Illicit streaming devices pose electrical risk to users

    A series of product safety tests on popular illicit streaming devices entering the UK have found that 100% fail to meet national electrical safety regulations. The findings are a result of a joint initiative between FACT and Electrical Safety First which examined the electrical safety of a number of devices.

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    Man ordered to pay £16,000 for illegally streaming Sky Sports

    On Monday 23 October 2017 a judgment was obtained in the High Court against a Sky customer who had been streaming Sky Sports content illegally online. Mr Yusuf Mohammed, of [...]

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    Two men sentenced for selling illegal streaming devices

    Two men have been sentenced at Teesside Crown Court after pleading guilty to charges relating to the sale of IPTV boxes which allowed people to illegally stream subscription content, infringing [...]

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    Licensees in Merseyside and Rochdale Ordered to Pay More Than £39,000 for Illegal Sky Use

    Six licensees have been found guilty of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. In the first of three [...]

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  • Merseyside Licensees Convicted and Ordered to Pay Over £16,000 for Illegal Sky Sports

    Three licensees have been found guilty of six offences each of dishonest reception of a television transmission by showing Sky Sports to customers without a commercial agreement from Sky. Janet [...]

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