Latest FACT news and perspectives

Strathclyde Police arrested eight men in connection with alleged criminal activity at Paddy’s Market, Glasgow yesterday (Thursday 27 November 2008). In the early hours of yesterday morning, officers went to [...]

Four people have been arrested and 8,500 counterfeit DVDs seized after search warrants were carried out at four houses in the Midlands on Monday (24 November). The raids were conducted [...]

Police officers from Greater Manchester Police working together with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) and Stockport Trading Standards have discovered a large pirate DVD factory in Stockport, Manchester. The intelligence-led [...]

Islington Police, supported by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), executed a search warrant at a terraced house on the border of Islington and Haringey on Friday 17th October 2008. [...]

Businesses in Hackney, East London are being warned that it is illegal to allow counterfeit goods, such as DVDs, to be sold on their premises. Trading Standards and police officers, [...]

Police officers from Eltham West Safer Neighbourhoods team and Borough Intelligence Unit working together with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) and Greenwich Council have discovered another large pirate DVD factory [...]

A man working in an illegal DVD ‘warehouse’ in London, E2 is behind bars after the court heard that 36,000 pirate and 7,000 hardcore pornographic DVDs were found there. Bao [...]

Yesterday [18.02.08] a DVD counterfeiting duo have been sentenced to a total of four years and six months for running an illegal factory worth £5 million a year. The case, [...]

Seven men were arrested today by Greater Manchester Police as part of a major operation targeting the manufacture of counterfeit films, music, video games and software and the sale of [...]

Three people were arrested today in a joint operation by officers from Hampshire Constabulary and the Federation Against Copyright Theft targeting the sale of counterfeit DVDs on the auction website [...]

Following an intelligence led operation, a large pirate DVD factory was raided yesterday in a 3 bedroom semi-detached house in Joseph Hardcastle Close, SE14 by New Cross Safer Neighbourhoods Team [...]

To mark its twentieth anniversary, the UK charity, Crimestoppers, has given its www.crimestoppers-uk.org website a complete makeover. From today, the new site which uses the latest in online technology, goes [...]