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 [...]
Guernsey man jailed for importing counterfeit DVDs
Read More →A 45 year old man has been sentenced for bringing more than 3,000 counterfeit and pirated DVDs into Guernsey. Matthew Le Page of St Sampson’s, appeared before the Magistrates Court [...]
12 month suspended sentence for North-East conterfeiter
Read More →On 7th December 2010 at Newcastle Combined Court Keith Gibson, age 50, of Houghton Le Spring was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 24 months, £500 costs and an [...]
Counterfeit goods website shut down | Five arrested
Read More →A website which sold more than half a million pounds worth of counterfeit products has been shut down thanks to an 18 month covert operation – the biggest of its [...]
Manchester counterfeit factory and warehouse raided | £65,000 of counterfeit discs seized
Read More →Raids last week in Manchester have closed down a pirate DVD factory and a major distribution warehouse, seizing discs with a total street value of over £65,000. FACT and Manchester [...]
Counterfeiters jailed for £1m international fake DVD operation
Read More →A PAIR of counterfeiters who ran a £1 million pound illegal DVD copying operation in Milton Keynes have been jailed for a total of more than three years. Rosalba Stocec-Bot, [...]
Three arrested as counterfeiting criminal network attacked
Read More →Police raids have uncovered an organised criminal gang operating an illegal DVD making factory across South East England. In operations on Monday and Tuesday three men were arrested on suspicion [...]
Raid in Dorset yields counterfeit DVDs after internet investigation
Read More →On Friday 28th May officers from Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service & Dorset Police, acting on intelligence from the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), seized thousands of counterfeit DVDs, [...]
