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A South Gloucestershire man has been made to pay back nearly £6,000, which he was assessed to have made from sales of counterfeit films, games and music as well as [...]

A raid by Lewisham Council, to counter the sale of counterfeit DVDs, has netted an estimated 30,000 fake DVDs. Council officers, a team from the Federation Against Copyright Theft and [...]

Police officers, anti-piracy agencies and the Hull Council Trading Standards took to the streets of Hull to round up known counterfeiters earlier this week (8 December). Behind the scene teams [...]

A large quantity of counterfeit DVD’s with an estimated value of over £200,000 was recovered during an operation involving Strathclyde Police and The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). On Thursday [...]

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has been involved in piloting an innovative anti-piracy campaign that aims to make London a fake free zone by the Olympics in 2012.   The campaign [...]

Sandwell Council Trading Standards and West Midlands Police, assisted by investigators from FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), seized fake DVDs and Nintendo Wii games with street value of nearly £300,000 [...]

Two Chinese men have received prison sentences for selling counterfeit DVDs in Tesco car park on Morning Lane in Hackney. The men, who both had previous convictions for similar offences, [...]

Strathclyde Police arrested eight men in connection with alleged criminal activity at Paddy’s Market, Glasgow yesterday (Thursday 27 November 2008). In the early hours of yesterday morning, officers went to [...]

Four people have been arrested and 8,500 counterfeit DVDs seized after search warrants were carried out at four houses in the Midlands on Monday (24 November). The raids were conducted [...]

Police officers from Greater Manchester Police working together with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) and Stockport Trading Standards have discovered a large pirate DVD factory in Stockport, Manchester. The intelligence-led [...]

Islington Police, supported by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), executed a search warrant at a terraced house on the border of Islington and Haringey on Friday 17th October 2008. [...]

Businesses in Hackney, East London are being warned that it is illegal to allow counterfeit goods, such as DVDs, to be sold on their premises. Trading Standards and police officers, [...]