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17 employees from cinemas across the UK have been presented with awards totalling over £7,000 for their efforts in preventing illegal recordings taking place. Illegal recordings of films are the [...]

Anton Vickerman, who set up and ran one of the world’s most visited pirate websites, surfthechannel, attracting more than 400,000 visitors per day and generating advertising revenues of at least [...]

  Following a complex investigation by police officers from Operation Zephyr, targeting serious and organised crime, assisted by FACT, three people have been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court. Full story here

A barrister has been struck off and fined after failing to disclose that he was the owner of a copyright-infringing website that he represented during trial – and for posting [...]

Government IP Minister Supports Anti-Counterfeiting Operation Driven by BPI and FACT Intelligence Investigation into Three Major Manchester Markets Uncovers Links to Organised Crime 28 November 2011, London – Six market [...]

Matthew Lisett aged 32 years from Fovant, Salisbury was given a two year conditional discharge at Salisbury Magistrates Court yesterday (Thursday 16th November 2011) for film piracy. Following a joint [...]

11 employees from cinemas across the UK have been presented with awards totalling £7,000 for their efforts in preventing illegal recordings (so called ‘camcordings’) taking place. The Federation Against Copyright [...]

Gang members who ran the UK’s biggest counterfeit DVD factory have been sentenced on 21 June to a total of seven years and 10 months before Southwark Crown Court, after [...]

Three people were arrested on Wednesday 26th January, after officers from the Metropolitan Police Territorial Support Group, acting on intelligence supplied by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), raided a [...]

Two men have received jail sentences after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Organised Crime Branch dismantled a substantial counterfeiting operation in Newtownards, Downpatrick and Belfast which was generating [...]

A 45 year old man has been sentenced for bringing more than 3,000 counterfeit and pirated DVDs into Guernsey. Matthew Le Page of St Sampson’s, appeared before the Magistrates Court [...]

On 7th December 2010 at Newcastle Combined Court Keith Gibson, age 50, of Houghton Le Spring was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment suspended for 24 months, £500 costs and an [...]