City of London piracy police to be given more money
Found on BBC News on Thursday, 23 October 2014
The latest action, on Thursday morning, saw a man, 55, and woman, 39, arrested in Bury for allegedly selling hard drives containing up to 200,000 counterfeited files.
Pipcu said the drives contained a mixture of karaoke tunes, full music tracks and music videos thought to be worth "more than £350,000".
The new funding will come from the budget of the Intellectual Property Office - which is supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Many of the domain takedowns are very questionable. They convice (threaten) registrars to change domains which are even outside of their jurisdiction, without court orders. That aside, it's pretty new that you can counterfeit files; back in the old days that was called copying. Give it a new name and suddenly it sounds so illegal; along with some creative acounting to come up with big, impressive amounts of fictional damages.