• Assets Recovery Agency supports creation of Film Piracy Unit

    The recent joint initiative by FACT with the Metropolitan Police to create the Film Piracy Unit has been endorsed by Alan McQuillan, Deputy Director of the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA). Alan has [...]

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  • Government link with Creative Industries for Biggest ever UK Crackdown on Counterfeiting and Benefit Fraud

    31 arrested after multi-agency crime raids target criminal counterfeiting ring More than 135 officers and investigators involved in multiple dawn raids Five major duplicating factories raided Suspects face multiple fraud [...]

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  • Plymouth licensee fined £14,000 for illegally screening Sky Sports

    Piracy Is A Crime campaign calls time on the pub pirates

    According to new research more than one in five pirate DVDs are currently sold in pubs and cafés. The organisation set up to highlight the problem of DVD crime, the [...]

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  • Police raids distribution centre for pirate DVDs in Bristol

    Bristol Avon and Somerset Police raided a house in Bristol that was being used as a distribution centre for pirate DVDs. 5,000 DVDs, along with thousands of printed inlay cards [...]

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  • Metropolitan Police Film Piracy Unit

    A new police unit dedicated to combating film piracy and the organised criminal networks sustaining the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit film product is launched today by the Met’s Economic [...]

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  • Operation Predator preys on counterfeit DVD sellers

    On Saturday 18th February 2006 at 12.45pm, amazed shoppers witnessed the Metropolitan Police, Trading Standards, Home Office Immigration, the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and Harrow Council CCTV operators working [...]

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