Ten year ASBOs and five month suspended prison sentences for pirate DVD sellers
Read More →Following the recent operation by Hackney Borough Police and Hackney Council, working with FACT, targeting prolific pirate DVD sellers in Hackney, six defendants appeared for sentencing on Friday (9th). Judge [...]
Rochdale DVD factory raided
Read More →Police in Heywood, Greater Manchester have raided a pirate DVD factory and arrested a 42 year-old man. The factory was located in a private house and contained 40 DVD burners, [...]
Seven pirate DVD sellers arrested in Hackney with multi-agency operation targeting local crime
Read More →Two men and five women have been arrested in Hackney, East London by Police working in co-operation with FACT, Hackney Council and the Immigration Service. The raid was part of [...]
Durham and Nottingham raids target illegal markets
Read More →FACT investigators, working with law enforcement, have successfully targeted pirate DVD sellers operating at illegal markets in Durham and Nottingham. A total of 16 suspects were arrested: 9 at Tanfield [...]
Major pirate factory on SE London raided
Read More →Four men have been arrested in Thamesmead, south east London, following the discovery of a ‘factory’ making counterfeit DVDs worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. It happened around 12.30 pm, [...]
Arrests and major seizures in Northern Ireland, Scotland and NW England
Read More →NORTH-WEST ENGLAND FACT’s regional investigator, working with local Police and Trading Standards, has helped seize over 90,000 pirate DVDs from markets in the North-West. Over the past 3 weeks, teams [...]
£60,000 confiscation order against film pirate
Read More →Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) Financial Investigators, working in partnership with Essex County Council Trading Standards, Cambridge County Council Trading Standards, Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and British Phonographic Industry (BPI) [...]
Six jailed for internet film piracy conspiracy in first case of its kind in the UK
Read More →A major internet piracy conspiracy has been broken up and six men sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from four years to six months on Friday (8th December) at Birmingham [...]
FACT welcomes tightening of laws on film piracy
Read More →The Federation Against Copyright Theft (‘FACT’) is pleased with the announcement by The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, in his Pre Budget Report, following the recommendations of Andrew Gowers, that stronger enforcement [...]
Ebay film pirate has record £55,000 assets seizure – Lord Of The Rings was top selling item
Read More →A prolific seller of pirate DVDs on eBay has been ordered to pay £55,000 under Proceeds Of Crime legislation following a judgement on Friday (1st December) at Bradford Crown Court. [...]
Four year sentence for DVD pirate – one of the strongest yet in UK
Read More →In one of the strongest ever sentences for film piracy in the UK, Zhong Li, age 35, and a Chinese national, was sentenced to four years imprisonment last week at [...]
Three arrested in South Belfast raid
Read More →Police in South Belfast have seized a substantial quantity of suspected counterfeit goods. The seizure followed a planned search of premises in King Street today by local uniformed officers and [...]
