A man from Wales has been jailed for eight months and ordered to hand over £71,000 he made from counterfeiting DVDs sold via the internet. Nigel Thomas appeared at Swansea Crown for sentencing and for the imposition of a Proceeds of Crime Act order on Friday 17th January , having previously pleaded guilty to an … Continued
The creator of a website which illegally screened live Premiership football matches over the internet has been sent to prison for two years. Kevin Broughton was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Thursday (31 October), having pleaded guilty to offences of fraud at a hearing in September. Broughton, of Tummon Road, Sheffield, developed and ran … Continued
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 for producing and distributing the illegal copies when he appeared at Truro Crown Court after earlier admitting the charge to magistrates. Full story here: http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Penryn-man-running-cottage-industry-fake-DVDs-CDs/story-19744749-detail/story.html
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 Road, Bermondsey London SE1. Mr David Cox, 50, from Bermondsey, was sentenced on 11 December 2012 at the Inner London Crown Court after pleading guilty to six … Continued
A website owner who created and ran one of the world’s most popular pirate websites has been sentenced to four years imprisonment today at Newcastle Crown Court. Anton Vickerman, age 38, set up the website surfthechannel in 2007 with the aim of being a ‘one stop’ destination for illegal copies of films and television programmes. … Continued