Merseyside Arrest Signals FACT’s Latest Crackdown on Illegal Streaming
Read More →Three arrests have been made in Merseyside as part of a coordinated nationwide crackdown on illegal streaming operations, led by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) in partnership with UK [...]
Plymouth Premiere Bar and Grill licensee fined £14,000 for illegally screening Sky Sports
Read More →On Thursday, 27 March 2025, Vahid Babolhavaeji the licensee of the Premiere Bar and Grill in Plymouth, Devon, was found guilty of three charges related to the dishonest broadcast of [...]
Latest crackdown on illegal IPTV services
Read More →The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and partners have started the year by reconfirming their commitment towards tackling illegal IPTV service operators in Ireland. An operation was carried out over [...]
Pair sentenced for supplying illegal streaming service subscriptions
Read More →A man and woman from County Londonderry have today, been sentenced for offences in relation to supplying illegal subscriptions for streaming services that involved more than £700,000. Cormac McGuckin and [...]
UK man who fled to Cyprus jailed in UK for illegal TV operation
Read More →June 12, 2024: Michael HORNUNG, 40, of Hyde, Greater Manchester, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison for advertising and selling specially configured television set-top boxes. These devices allowed [...]
Liverpool man sentenced for illegal Firestick operation
Read More →Kevin James O’DONNELL, a 41-year-old man from Liverpool, has been handed down a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to charges of promoting and selling illegally modified firesticks that offered [...]
FACT and PIPCU tackle the supply of modified Fire Sticks
Read More →The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at City of London Police carried out a week of action, carrying out interviews across the country as part of a crackdown on [...]
Flawless IPTV: Men Behind UK’s Largest Pirate Service Jailed For 30+ Years
Read More →Trading under the names Flawless, Shared VPS and Optimal (also known as Cosmic), the fraudulent operations generated in excess of £7 million in just five years. The illegal streaming businesses [...]
Licensee of The Watering Trough in Walsall ordered to pay over £8k for illegally screening Sky Sports
Read More →On Wednesday, 1 February 2023, Clinton Hartland of The Watering Trough in Walsall, West Midlands was found guilty in his absence of two offences of dishonest reception of a television [...]
UK man who ran an operation offering illegal access to Premier League football has received a suspended 8-month prison sentence
Read More →Peter DILWORTH, aged 36, from Wirral, Merseyside, who operated a service offering illegal access to sports and entertainment content, has received an 8-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months. Dilworth [...]
Wolverhampton Licensee ordered to pay £2,867 for illegally screening Sky Sports
Read More →On Wednesday 10th August 2022, Mr. Patrick Hennessy of the Boat Inn, Church Street, Wolverhampton was found guilty of two offences of dishonest reception of a television transmission, in this [...]
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
