• UK’s largest illegal DVD factory shut | Thousands of DVDs and hundreds of DVD burners seized

    Raids in London have led to the closure of a sophisticated large scale printing operation, printing covers for counterfeit DVDs, and the UK’s largest ever illegal DVD manufacturing facility in [...]

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  • Illegal DVD factory uncovered in London

    Officers from the Metropolitan Police Obscene Publications Unit have arrested two men and seized over 50,000 counterfeit DVDs following a joint operation with City of London Police, FACT (Federation Against [...]

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  • Trading standards seize £100,000 of pirate DVDs.

    A joint raid by Birmingham Trading Standards, West Midlands Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) on an apartment has netted an estimated 40,000 pirate DVDs. The raid on [...]

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  • 16 months for Manchester man convicted of counterfeiting DVDs

    Steven Healey rented a house to carry out his counterfeit films, music and games enterprise. The 42-year-old was caught when a gas engineer sent around by the landlord became suspicions [...]

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  • Thousands of DVDs and 150 DVD burners seized following separate police raids in South East London

    30,000 Counterfeit DVDs, with a street value of over £90,000, and 150 DVD burners have been seized by the Metropolitan Police following separate Police raids in Lewisham. Seven people were [...]

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  • Dorset houses searched for counterfeit DVD operations

    Dorset Police executed two separate search warrants on two houses in the Bournemouth and Poole conurbation in relation to the alleged manufacture and sale of counterfeit DVDs. A property in the Boscombe area of Bournemouth was entered [...]

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  • Nine arrested in Glasgow counterfeit DVD factory raid

    Seven men and two women have been arrested and are presently detained in police custody following a police operation which recovered thousands of counterfeit DVD’s with an estimated value of [...]

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  • Londonderry shopkeeper fined for selling counterfeit DVDs

    Londonderry shopkeeper Daniel McDaid was fined a total of £200 at Londonderry Magistrates’ Court for selling counterfeit DVD’S in December 2008. In a case brought by the Department of Enterprise, [...]

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  • MOD police investigation foils DVD piracy on MOD property

    A 32-year-old man has been fined £400 after a police investigation uncovered a DVD piracy scam he was running. The man was ordered to pay the money, along with £87 [...]

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  • Dartford man arrested for trading counterfeit DVDs on internet

    Trading Standards Officers from the London Borough of Bexley and the Metropolitan Police, assisted by investigators from FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), seized counterfeit DVDs and burners in a raid [...]

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  • 5000 counterfeit DVDs seized from garden shed

    The Metropolitan Police seized approximately 5,000 counterfeit DVDs after a house search in Brierley, New Addington, Surrey on Sunday (18th January). A 65-year-old woman was arrested after Police and FACT investigators [...]

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  • Drugs, weapons and counterfeit DVDs found during Edinburgh house search

    Lothian and Borders Police have seized approximately 10,000 counterfeit DVDs after a house search in Edinburgh on Saturday (10th January). As well as the DVDs, PS2 games, three DVD burning [...]

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