Latest FACT news and perspectives

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 has today (9th November) announced it is expanding its intellectual property protection services to organisations outside the audio-visual industry.

A local Post Office manager has been jailed for 25 months after being convicted of selling over 7,000 counterfeit DVDs at the Inner London Crown Court.

A Norfolk man has been sentenced to 12 months for selling devices providing illegal access to the sports channels of leading betting supplier SIS.

Two fraudsters who supplied illegal broadcasts of Premier League football have been ordered to pay back £1 million following a confiscation hearing.

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.

A police operation has led to the arrest of three people who are suspected to have orchestrated the distribution and transmission of thousands of illegally modified TV set-top boxes.

Cinema staff from across the UK were recognised and rewarded yesterday (5th July) for their work in disrupting and preventing film piracy.

Officers from FACT and Police Scotland executed two search warrants at addresses in Glasgow as part of an ongoing investigation into the sale of illegal TV boxes to hundreds of licensed premises.

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.

A Bovingdon market trader has been sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for selling fake DVDs and CDs, following a successful investigation by FACT.

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.