• £100k DVD con man is found guilty

    A con man who was identified following a joint FACT and Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) investigation into the sale counterfeit DVD box sets has today (8 Jan) been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court.

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  • Police custody images of Baker, Rafiq and Cooper

    Online movie release group sentenced to over 17 years

    Five members of an underground piracy 'release group' have been jailed for more than 17 years after causing total losses in excess of £5 million.

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  • Online seller of counterfeit DVDs imported from China jailed for two years

    A Northamptonshire man has been given a two-year prison sentence for breaching trade mark laws after selling counterfeit DVDs he imported from China following a join investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and Northamptonshire County Council's Trading Standards.

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  • Richard Mollet, Baroness Neville-Rolfe and FACT Director General Kieron Sharp and FACT Director of Communications, Alice Skeats

    Minister hails counterfeiting crackdown on social media a success

    The Minister for IP, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, has applauded a multi-agency initiative which has seen a crackdown on countefeit goods on social media

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  • The back view of a TV streaming box

    Man jailed for more than two and half years for selling illegal TV set-top boxes

    A man has been jailed for over two years after FACT and Leicestershire Police discovered he was selling hundreds of illegal TV boxes online.

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  • Men watching football on the TV in pub

    Watford Pub Company Ordered to Pay Nearly £6,000 For Illegal Sky Use

    A Watford pub company has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 for illegal broadcasting Sky Sports in its pubs following an investigation by FACT.

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  • Person with remote control watching football on TV

    Licensee In Uxbridge Ordered To Pay Nearly £6,000 For Illegal Sky Use

    A licensee in Uxbridge has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs for illegally broadcasting Sky Sports in his pub the Crown.

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  • Group of cinema staff rewarded for fighting film piracy

    Rewards doubled for staff who disrupt film piracy in cinemas

    Rewards from FACT and the FDA have been doubled to up to £1,000 for vigilant cinema staff who disrupt film piracy in cinemas across the UK

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  • Man with a pint of beer watching the football on TV in a pub

    Licensees of pub in Bolton ordered to pay over £6,500 for illegal Sky use

    Following a successful prosecution by The Federation Against Copyright Theft (‘FACT’), Janet and Eric Ashton of the Rose & Crown  in Westhoughton have been convicted and ordered to pay more [...]

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  • Plymouth licensee fined £14,000 for illegally screening Sky Sports

    Man fined more than £22,000 for illegally showing BT Sport & Sky Sports football

    Yesterday (24th September) a Liverpool pub supervisor was fined more than £22,000 for illegally showing BT Sport and Sky Sports football matches following a successful prosecution by the Federation Against [...]

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  • View of bar and football on a TV screen in pub

    COURTS CONVICT LICENSEES IN STOCKPORT AND RUTLAND FOR ILLEGAL SKY USE

    Licensees in Stockport and Rutland have been convicted and fined for showing Sky Sports illegally in their premises following successful prosecutions by The Federation Against Copyright Theft (‘FACT’). In the [...]

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  • money and handcuffs

    Man sentenced to four years for film piracy scam

    The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and the Police Service in Northern Ireland (PSNI) have today welcomed the jail term imposed on a 30 year old man from the city [...]

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