Three sentenced in fraudulent trading investigation
Read More →Following a complex investigation by police officers from Operation Zephyr, targeting serious and organised crime, assisted by FACT, three people have been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court. Full story here
Newzbin barrister struck off for owning site he represented
Read More →A barrister has been struck off and fined after failing to disclose that he was the owner of a copyright-infringing website that he represented during trial – and for posting [...]
Six Arrested in Crack Down on Organised Crime Illegal Trade in Counterfeit CDs and DVDs
Read More →Government IP Minister Supports Anti-Counterfeiting Operation Driven by BPI and FACT Intelligence Investigation into Three Major Manchester Markets Uncovers Links to Organised Crime 28 November 2011, London – Six market [...]
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 [...]
