Plymouth Premiere Bar and Grill licensee fined £14,000 for illegally screening Sky Sports
Read More →On Thursday, 27 March 2025, Vahid Babolhavaeji the licensee of the Premiere Bar and Grill in Plymouth, Devon, was found guilty of three charges related to the dishonest broadcast of [...]
Illicit streaming fraudsters jailed
Read More →FACT instigated investigation leads to over 10 years total prison sentences Hampshire County Council Trading Standards and FACT have welcomed a successful outcome in the courts relating to the illegal [...]
IPTV service disrupted as part of illegal streaming crackdown
Read More →Worcester Trading Standards officers aided by West Mercia Police, in partnership with FACT and BT, executed a warrant on Tuesday 14 December as part of the continuing fight against illegal [...]
Thirty months’ imprisonment for pirate software developer
Read More →In what is understood to be the first conviction of its type in the UK, a man who created and built a software package which enabled illegal access to BT [...]
Two arrested as part of illegal IPTV crackdown
Read More →Leicestershire Police officers yesterday (Monday 29 November) executed a warrant as part of a crackdown on illegal streaming services. Police visited an address in Oadby and two people – a [...]
Two-year sentence handed down to eBay fraudster
Read More →Westminster City Council’s Trading Standards team, working in partnership with FACT, have secured a prosecution against an eBay user who was selling internet protocol television (IPTV) devices online. IPTV devices [...]
FACT and Sky Highlight Dangers of Illegal Streaming to Licensees
Read More →With the football season back in full swing, Sky and FACT are working together to warn licensees of the dangers of unscrupulous suppliers who may be approaching them with low-cost, [...]
Illegal streaming service shut down and man arrested
Read More →A West Mercia police operation working closely with FACT have arrested a man in Shrewsbury in connection with suspected illegal streaming of premium television channels, and other copyrighted material. A [...]
Man jailed for illegally supplying and viewing Premier League content
Read More →A UK man who ran an operation offering illegal access to Premier League football has been jailed for 16 months. Mr Paul Faulkner appeared in front of Liverpool Crown Court [...]
Thousands of subscribers to illegal streaming service warned by police
Read More →More than 7000 residents, believed to have been using an illegal TV streaming service, are set to receive warning notices this week from Lancashire Police. The Police cyber-crime unit is [...]
Police ask consumers if illegally streaming high profile sporting events is worth the risk of identity theft
Read More →The City of London Police’s, Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) in partnership with FACT, leaders in intellectual property protection, are warning sports fans to use legitimate sources to watch [...]
Two-year prison sentence for man convicted of selling illegal streaming devices
Read More →A man who pleaded guilty to supplying set-top-boxes which illegally provided access to premium pay TV content has been jailed for two years, in the latest in a series of actions designed to crackdown on illegal streaming.
