Lancashire pub company convicted and fined after illegally showing Sky Sports broadcasts from Ireland
Read More →The only legal way to show Sky Sports programming in pubs and clubs in mainland UK is through a commercial viewing agreement from Sky Following a successful prosecution by The [...]
Islington landlord ordered to pay over £4,800 for illegal Sky use
Read More →Following a successful prosecution by The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), the licensee of The Halfway House Bar in Islington has been convicted and fined for showing Sky Sports illegally [...]
Five men arrested for conspiring to defraud film industry
Read More →In February 2013 five men from the West Midlands area were arrested by police in a coordinated operation, it being alleged that they were members of a secret underground community [...]
FACT secures record £22,600 in fines and costs after conviction for illegal Sky use in pubs
Read More →Latest order brings fines & costs awarded since 1st July 2014 to £68,765.57 as part of efforts to protect thousands of law-abiding pubs The Federation Against Copyright Theft (‘FACT’) has [...]
Cammer sentenced to 33 months imprisionment
Read More →A man was sentenced yesterday to 33 months imprisonment for recording a blockbuster film in a cinema, uploading it to the internet, and producing and selling copies to the public. [...]
EIGHT MONTH JAIL SENTENCE AND £71,000 CONFISCATION FOR COUNTERFEITER
Read More →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 [...]
Northern Ireland eBay trader given a suspended sentence for selling counterfeit Disney DVDs
Read More →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 [...]
Fraudster jailed for running football website
Read More →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 [...]
Penryn man running ‘cottage industry’ in fake DVDs and CDs jailed for a year
Read More →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 [...]
Man jailed in £460,000 CD and DVD fraud
Read More →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, [...]
London pirate DVD trader jailed for 18 months
Read More →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 [...]
Brothers Sentenced for Copyright Offences
Read More →Two Leeds men have today been convicted of copyright infringement. Brothers Faraz Saddiq, 27 of Woodsley Road, Leeds, and Ayaz Saddiq, 26 of Woodsley Road, Leeds, were arrested following an [...]
