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 [...]
Major illegal streaming network dismantled by West Midlands Police operation
Read More →Top UK content provider targeted by police raids Suspects, who were allegedly providing illegal access to content to more than 100 separate pirate TV services, were arrested at the scene [...]
Suppliers of illegal streaming services targeted in UK-wide FACT initiative
Read More →In the past week FACT investigators and police officers from Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, West Yorkshire Police and Dyfed-Powys Police have visited addresses across the UK to serve Cease [...]
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 [...]
RAF Corporal convicted of conspiracy to defraud
Read More →A serving Corporal in the Royal Air Force (RAF) who sold illegal services which provided access to premium sport, TV and films has been sentenced to ten months imprisonment, suspended [...]
Three in five consumers unaware of the hidden dangers of piracy: fraud, malware and identity theft
Read More →62% of people in the UK unwittingly putting themselves and their new gadgets at risk through piracy New research commissioned by FACT has shown that three out of five people [...]
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 [...]
Thousands of subscribers to illegal streaming service warned by police
Read More →Norfolk and Suffolk Constabulary have taken the unprecedented step of issuing individual warning notices to thousands of consumers believed to have been using an illegal TV streaming service.
