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UK: Social sharer gets 24 month suspended jail sentence (FACT)

June 9, 2020
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An individual was ordered to complete 240 hours of unpaid work, and given a 24 month suspended jail sentence for selling devices that provided access to paid-for content including sport and films via his Facebook page.  An investigation led by FACT, the UK-based organization focused on protecting intellectual property, led to the conviction.

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FACT CEO Kieron Sharp called this “a warning to anyone engaged in selling subscriptions or devices that allow access to content without remunerating the legitimate provider – it’s not a grey area and you risk a criminal conviction.”

Read the full press release at FACT

Why it matters

While a suspended jail sentence seems to be light punishment for a confirmed and convicted pirate, the offender was an individual and not an industrial-scale operation.

Another pirate investigated by FACT and convicted just a week earlier, was given a 12-month jail sentence (not suspended), but the scale of that crime was much greater.

FACT collaborates with Crimestoppers International, which runs a Web site and telephone hotline for reporting content or services that appear not to be legitimate.

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