Latest FACT news and perspectives

FACT was involved in a day of action to disrupt the sales of TV boxes which have been illegally modified to stream pirated movies and sports.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Minister for IP, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, has applauded a multi-agency initiative which has seen a crackdown on countefeit goods on social media

A man has been jailed for over two years after FACT and Leicestershire Police discovered he was selling hundreds of illegal TV boxes online.

A Watford pub company has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 for illegal broadcasting Sky Sports in its pubs following an investigation by FACT.

A licensee in Uxbridge has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs for illegally broadcasting Sky Sports in his pub the Crown.

Rewards from FACT and the FDA have been doubled to up to £1,000 for vigilant cinema staff who disrupt film piracy in cinemas across the UK

Following a successful prosecution by The Federation Against Copyright Theft (‘FACT’), Janet and Eric Ashton of the Rose & Crown  in Westhoughton have been convicted and ordered to pay more [...]