Two Leeds pubs convicted and ordered to pay more than £8,500 for illegal Sky use
Read More →Following successful prosecutions by FACT, two pubs in Leeds have each been convicted and ordered to pay a combined total of more than £8,500 in fines and costs for showing Sky Sports illegally in their premises.
FACT launches services outside of audio-visual industry
Read More →FACT has today (9th November) announced it is expanding its intellectual property protection services to organisations outside the audio-visual industry.
Six men sentenced for Virgin Media set-top box piracy ring
Read More →Six men have been handed prison sentences for their part in a multi-million pound piracy ring which allowed thousands of people to watch Virgin Media’s pay-TV service free of charge.
Cinema staff rewarded for tackling film piracy
Read More →Cinema staff from across the UK were recognised and rewarded yesterday (5th July) for their work in disrupting and preventing film piracy.
Crackdown Underway on Scottish Torrent Websites
Read More →Police Scotland and the Federation against Copyright Theft (FACT) are waging war on the hosts of illicit Torrent websites that enable users to download movies, games, Ebooks and music.
Man jailed for selling fake DVDs and CDs
Read More →A Bovingdon market trader has been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for selling fake DVDs and CDs, following a successful investigation by FACT.
Surrey Pub Company found guilty of illegally showing Sky Sports and ordered to pay out over £120,000
Read More →A Surrey pub company has been found guilty of illegally airing Sky Sports and ordered to pay a record £120,600 in fines following an investigation by FACT.
FACT secures record fine for illegal Sky broadcasts
Read More →Pub company Sheldon Inns Ltd has been ordered to pay a record £23,907 in fines and costs for illegally showing Sky Sports following a prosecution by FACT.
Man who sold £100k fake DVDs online sentenced to two years
Read More →A man who sold over £100k of counterfeit DVDs online has been sentenced to two years imprisonment following a joint operation by FACT and PIPCU.
£100k DVD con man is found guilty
Read More →A con man who was identified following a joint FACT and Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) investigation into the sale counterfeit DVD box sets has today (8 Jan) been found guilty at Southwark Crown Court.
Online movie release group sentenced to over 17 years
Read More →Five members of an underground piracy 'release group' have been jailed for more than 17 years after causing total losses in excess of £5 million.
Online seller of counterfeit DVDs imported from China jailed for two years
Read More →A Northamptonshire man has been given a two-year prison sentence for breaching trade mark laws after selling counterfeit DVDs he imported from China following a join investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and Northamptonshire County Council's Trading Standards.
