Brian Robertson appointed FACT chairman
Read More →The Federation Again Copyright Theft (FACT) is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Robertson as FACT Chairman with immediate effect. Brian was elected by a unanimous vote, in accordance [...]
Prolific ebay pirate jailed for 6 months
Read More →Yesterday at Bradford Crown Court a prolific DVD pirate was jailed for 6 months. Peter Spencer, 39, of Oakhall Park, Bradford had been trading on eBay since 2002 selling counterfeit [...]
Pirate DVD factory raided – street value of over £1m a week | Third major London operation dismantled since February
Read More →At approx midday on 21.05.06 local officers from Walthamstow borough discovered a large counterfeit DVD and cannabis factory at premises in East Walthamstow, E17. The Met officers were on patrol [...]
‘Taxi for film pirates!’
Read More →The Federation Against Copyright Theft exhibited for the first time at the Police Federation Conference in Bournemouth last week. The FACT stand attracted large numbers of visitors making enquiries about [...]
Two jailed after police raid one of UK’s biggest pirate DVD factories
Read More →Two men have been jailed for a total of three years after admitting their part in the running of one of the biggest ever pirate DVD factories in the UK, [...]
World first as dogs trained to detect DVDs
Read More →FACT has joined forces with express delivery company FedEx and HM Revenue & Customs to launch an exciting new initiative to help combat DVD piracy. As part of a project [...]
Largest ever pirate dvd manufacturing and distribution facility raided
Read More →The Metropolitan Police and Waltham Forest Trading Standards in a joint initiative with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) on Wednesday raided a major pirate DVD manufacturing facility and made five [...]
Assets Recovery Agency supports creation of Film Piracy Unit
Read More →The recent joint initiative by FACT with the Metropolitan Police to create the Film Piracy Unit has been endorsed by Alan McQuillan, Deputy Director of the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA). Alan has [...]
Government link with Creative Industries for Biggest ever UK Crackdown on Counterfeiting and Benefit Fraud
Read More →31 arrested after multi-agency crime raids target criminal counterfeiting ring More than 135 officers and investigators involved in multiple dawn raids Five major duplicating factories raided Suspects face multiple fraud [...]
Piracy Is A Crime campaign calls time on the pub pirates
Read More →According to new research more than one in five pirate DVDs are currently sold in pubs and cafés. The organisation set up to highlight the problem of DVD crime, the [...]
Police raids distribution centre for pirate DVDs in Bristol
Read More →Bristol Avon and Somerset Police raided a house in Bristol that was being used as a distribution centre for pirate DVDs. 5,000 DVDs, along with thousands of printed inlay cards [...]
Metropolitan Police Film Piracy Unit
Read More →A new police unit dedicated to combating film piracy and the organised criminal networks sustaining the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit film product is launched today by the Met’s Economic [...]
