• Bradford boss sentenced after 5,000 fake DVDs found at rental shop

      Adrees Malik, aged 45 was sentenced on 7th January 2014 under the Trade Marks Act 1994 to a 10 month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for selling and [...]

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  • Northern Ireland eBay trader given a suspended sentence for selling counterfeit Disney DVDs

    An online trader who was selling counterfeit Disney DVDs has been given a five month suspended sentence, suspended for two years, at Lisburn Magistrates’ court. In a case brought by [...]

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  • Penryn man running ‘cottage industry’ in fake DVDs and CDs jailed for a year

    A prolific counterfeiter has been jailed after brazenly ripping off thousands of movies, cds and computers games. Paul Sorren, of Permarin Road, Penryn, was sentenced to 12 months behind bars [...]

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  • Man jailed in £460,000 CD and DVD fraud

    A LANCASHIRE man has been jailed for three years and ten months for the sale of counterfeit DVDs, CDs and MP3s, which yielded almost half a million pounds. Lester Hawkes, [...]

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  • London pirate DVD trader jailed for 18 months

    A trader has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after admitting making and possessing for sale almost 5,000 fake copies of DVDs from his video shop located at 6 Dunton [...]

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  • Sex and the City and Lincoln fake DVDs

    Penryn raid nets counterfeit films and music

    Large quantities of counterfeit films, music and computer games have been seized by Cornwall Trading Standards from a property in Penryn. Officers from Cornwall Trading Standards, the Police and the [...]

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  • Pirate DVD couple ordered to pay back £130,000 by Court

    Mark Small, 47, was jailed for nine months earlier this year after investigators discovered he was running a sophisticated and profitable business selling bootleg DVDs of classic BBC programmes. His [...]

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  • £67,500 confiscated from counterfeit DVD seller

    At Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday (8th August), a Confiscation Order for £67,500 was made against Satnam Panesar (DOB 21-03-1971). Panesar, from Newton Mearns, Glasgow, had previously pled guilty to infringing [...]

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