Latest FACT news and perspectives

A website which sold more than half a million pounds worth of counterfeit products has been shut down thanks to an 18 month covert operation – the biggest of its [...]

Raids last week in Manchester have closed down a pirate DVD factory and a major distribution warehouse, seizing discs with a total street value of over £65,000. FACT and Manchester [...]

A PAIR of counterfeiters who ran a £1 million pound illegal DVD copying operation in Milton Keynes have been jailed for a total of more than three years. Rosalba Stocec-Bot, [...]

Police raids have uncovered an organised criminal gang operating an illegal DVD making factory across South East England. In operations on Monday and Tuesday three men were arrested on suspicion [...]

On Friday 28th May officers from Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service & Dorset Police, acting on intelligence from the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), seized thousands of counterfeit DVDs, [...]

A counterfeiter and handler of stolen goods who made over £56,000 while illegally pocketing benefits has been jailed for five years after a two-year-long investigation by West Yorkshire Police, Federation [...]

Following intelligence supplied by FACT, on 22nd February Gloucestershire Police and Trading Standards Officers accompanied by a FACT Investigator executed a warrant at a house in Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire. Computer [...]

On Wednesday 10/02/2010 officers from Hampshire Police and the Metropolitan Police acting on intelligence supplied by FACT executed four simultaneous search warrants at addresses in Middlesex and Hampshire as part [...]

Lawrence Barratt, a 32-year-old from Chatham, Kent, was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court on 8 December 2009 of bReaching the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 by manufacturing and [...]

A 36 year old man from Belfast has been charged with two offences related to counterfeiting after a proactive police operation yesterday. The man will appear at Newtownards Magistrates Court [...]

A major counterfeiter from south east London has had assets totalling £142,000 confiscated, having already been jailed for related criminal activity. Neil Anthony Norton, 42, from Bromley was sentenced to [...]

Today (28th July 2009) four members of a criminal network involved in a multi-million pound film piracy ‘industry’ have been jailed for a total of eighteen years at Southwark Crown [...]