Man flees UK to avoid jail after selling illegal boxes showing Sky and BT Sport
Read More →Illegal boxes streaming free Sky and BT Sport sold in Manchester | UK | News | Express.co.uk
Four years and six-month jail sentence for pirate TV supplier
Read More →On 16 June 2022 at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, Michael Hornung, formerly of Hyde, Greater Manchester was sentenced to four years and six months imprisonment following conviction by a [...]
Court orders £1m Court Order for supplier of illegal streaming devices providing illegal access to Premier League content
Read More →A criminal found guilty of supplying illegal streaming devices (ISDs) providing unauthorised access to Premier League content has been ordered to pay back almost £1million to the public purse. Steven [...]
Content creators Jakidale and Arianna Chieli shine a light on the dangers of Illegal streaming
Read More →Italian families are increasingly at risk as new research shows that 47 per cent of families illegally streaming have seen extreme or explicit pop-ups. More than 1000 Italian parents with [...]
Hereford Licensee ordered to pay over £6,000 for illegally screening Sky Sports
Read More →On Tuesday 22nd March 2022, Mr. Michael Hudson of the Prince of Wales public house, Walford Road, Ross on Wye was convicted in his absence of two offences of dishonest [...]
Illicit streaming fraudsters jailed
Read More →FACT instigated investigation leads to over 10 years total prison sentences Hampshire County Council Trading Standards and FACT have welcomed a successful outcome in the courts relating to the illegal [...]
FACT’s anti-piracy and content protection work in 2021
Read More →2021 was another busy year for FACT’s content protection team! From the first conviction of its type in the UK to a summer road trip serving cease and desist notices, [...]
IPTV service disrupted as part of illegal streaming crackdown
Read More →Worcester Trading Standards officers aided by West Mercia Police, in partnership with FACT and BT, executed a warrant on Tuesday 14 December as part of the continuing fight against illegal [...]
Thirty months’ imprisonment for pirate software developer
Read More →In what is understood to be the first conviction of its type in the UK, a man who created and built a software package which enabled illegal access to BT [...]
Two arrested as part of illegal IPTV crackdown
Read More →Leicestershire Police officers yesterday (Monday 29 November) executed a warrant as part of a crackdown on illegal streaming services. Police visited an address in Oadby and two people – a [...]
Matze Knop discovers the harsh realities of illegal sports streams
Read More →Too good to be true: Comedian and football fan Matze Knop turns to cybersecurity expert Felix Friedrich to learn about the dangers of illegal sport streaming sites. In a new [...]
Two-year sentence handed down to eBay fraudster
Read More →Westminster City Council’s Trading Standards team, working in partnership with FACT, have secured a prosecution against an eBay user who was selling internet protocol television (IPTV) devices online. IPTV devices [...]
