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A crackdown on illegal DVD sellers in Whitechapel netted 1,218 pirate DVDs including 311 obscene pornographic films. Eight DVD sellers were arrested in the street raids on Thursday (12 July) [...]

An intelligence led operation targeting a website (www.xv99.com) that was selling counterfeit films, TV programmes, games, music and software by post in the UK has resulted in raids on six [...]

          L-R: Rafi Asghar-Sheikh, Sami Asghar- Sheikh, Xin Li, also known as Jerry Li Yesterday (8 July) members of a criminal network involved in a multi-million pound [...]

For their relentless campaign against piracy, FACT won the BVA’s Award for Industry Initiative of the Year which acknowledged their achievements well ahead of the anticipated two year goal they [...]

Stockholm, Sweden: 17.4.2009. A court in Stockholm today convicted the four defendants of copyright offences in ‘The Pirate Bay Trial’ and sentenced each to one year’s imprisonment. Substantial damages were [...]

Raids in London have led to the closure of a sophisticated large scale printing operation, printing covers for counterfeit DVDs, and the UK’s largest ever illegal DVD manufacturing facility in [...]

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Obscene Publications Unit have arrested two men and seized over 50,000 counterfeit DVDs following a joint operation with City of London Police, FACT (Federation Against [...]

A joint raid by Birmingham Trading Standards, West Midlands Police and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) on an apartment has netted an estimated 40,000 pirate DVDs. The raid on [...]

Steven Healey rented a house to carry out his counterfeit films, music and games enterprise. The 42-year-old was caught when a gas engineer sent around by the landlord became suspicions [...]

30,000 Counterfeit DVDs, with a street value of over £90,000, and 150 DVD burners have been seized by the Metropolitan Police following separate Police raids in Lewisham. Seven people were [...]

Dorset Police executed two separate search warrants on two houses in the Bournemouth and Poole conurbation in relation to the alleged manufacture and sale of counterfeit DVDs. A property in the Boscombe area of Bournemouth was entered [...]

Seven men and two women have been arrested and are presently detained in police custody following a police operation which recovered thousands of counterfeit DVD’s with an estimated value of [...]