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A trader has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after admitting making and possessing for sale almost 5,000 fake copies of DVDs from his video shop located at 6 Dunton [...]

Two people, a man aged 30 years and a woman aged 32 years, have been arrested in Cheltenham in a targeted operation against sellers of counterfeit goods on eBay. Gloucestershire [...]

Two Leeds men have today been convicted of copyright infringement. Brothers Faraz Saddiq, 27 of Woodsley Road, Leeds, and Ayaz Saddiq, 26 of Woodsley Road, Leeds, were arrested following an [...]

Anton Vickerman, owner of the pirate website Surf The Channel, pleaded guilty yesterday (21st November) to contempt of court at Newcastle Crown Court. Vickerman published on the internet restricted court documents from the [...]

The Content Map, a comprehensive portal for British digital content services, was unveiled today, encouraging UK online consumers to explore more than 150 authorised websites and platforms offering films, TV programmes, music, [...]

Large quantities of counterfeit films, music and computer games have been seized by Cornwall Trading Standards from a property in Penryn. Officers from Cornwall Trading Standards, the Police and the [...]

Mark Small, 47, was jailed for nine months earlier this year after investigators discovered he was running a sophisticated and profitable business selling bootleg DVDs of classic BBC programmes. His [...]

For fourteen years, the Alliance Against IP Theft has represented trade associations with an interest in ensuring intellectual property rights are valued and receive the protection they need and deserve. [...]

Equinix EMEA data centers meet the highest security standards for the European audio-visual industry Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that its EMEA [...]

A website owner who created and ran one of the world’s most popular pirate websites has been sentenced to four years imprisonment today at Newcastle Crown Court. Anton Vickerman, age [...]

At Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday (8th August), a Confiscation Order for £67,500 was made against Satnam Panesar (DOB 21-03-1971). Panesar, from Newton Mearns, Glasgow, had previously pled guilty to infringing [...]

Hertfordshire Trading Standards, supported by FACT, has carried out further raids as a result of the major operation against counterfeiting at Bovingdon Market in April this year. On Wednesday 25 [...]