Pub ordered to pay over £9,000 for illegal Sky use
Read More →Two pubs in Merseyside and Liverpool have been convicted and ordered to pay £9,000 in costs and fines for showing Sky Sports illegally in their premises.
Suppliers of IPTV boxes ordered to pay £267,000 to the Premier League
Read More →Three suppliers of pre-loaded IPTV boxes that facilitate mass piracy of Premier League football broadcasts have been ordered to pay a total of £267,000 by the Courts for infringing copyright.
Multi-agency crackdown on illegal TV set-top boxes results in five arrests
Read More →Five people have been arrested today (Wed 8 February) in a crackdown on the sale and distribution of illegal TV set-top devices in the North West of England and Wales.
Operation Creative tackles advertising on pirate sites
Read More →This week officers from PIPCU at City of London Police visited organisations found to be advertising on websites involved in digital piracy.
Man sentenced to 12 months for music piracy after PIPCU investigation
Read More →FACT welcomes a recent sentencing result which saw a man jailed for 12 months for music piracy following a PIPCU and PRS for Music investigation.
Illegal IPTV box supplier jailed for four years
Read More →Following the first legal case involving illegal IPTV boxes a man has been jailed for four years. Terry O’Reilly was sentenced to four years in prison and a second supplier Will O’Leary pleaded guilty and received a two-year suspended sentence.
Man arrested for selling Brotherhood movie online
Read More →The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) arrested a 35 year old man in Maidenhead on suspicion of selling the movie Brotherhood online.
Two Leeds pubs convicted and ordered to pay more than £8,500 for illegal Sky use
Read More →Following successful prosecutions by FACT, two pubs in Leeds have each been convicted and ordered to pay a combined total of more than £8,500 in fines and costs for showing Sky Sports illegally in their premises.
FACT launches services outside of audio-visual industry
Read More →FACT has today (9th November) announced it is expanding its intellectual property protection services to organisations outside the audio-visual industry.
Post Office manager jailed over fake DVD business
Read More →A local Post Office manager has been jailed for 25 months after being convicted of selling over 7,000 counterfeit DVDs at the Inner London Crown Court.
Man sentenced in illegal sports channel broadcasts
Read More →A Norfolk man has been sentenced to 12 months for selling devices providing illegal access to the sports channels of leading betting supplier SIS.
Suppliers of illegal Premier League broadcasts ordered to pay £1 million
Read More →Two fraudsters who supplied illegal broadcasts of Premier League football have been ordered to pay back £1 million following a confiscation hearing.
