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> City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has sent a cease and desist notice to a popular YouTube ripper. The letter accuses the site operator of being involved in criminal activity and demands action. These statements are quite broad, especially since stream-ripper sites are not by definition breaking the law in the UK. For most police departments, online piracy has no priority, but the City of London Police have made copyright infringement one of their main target...

A Metropolitan Police officer has denied being a member of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.  Benjamin Hannam, 22, a probationary officer at the force, denied three charges when he appeared at Londons Old Bailey on Monday. The first alleges Hannam belonged to or professed to belong to the banned organisation, National Action, between December 2016 and September 2017. National Action is an extremist group was outlawed under the Terrorism Act in December 2016.  Benjamin Hannam, 22, a...

> Police say they are preparing to send warning notices to more than 7,000 UK residents who are believed to have purchased pirate IPTV subscriptions. The warnings follow the arrest of a then 28-year-old man in the North-West of England during the summer and the seizure of luxury cars, expensive jewelry, and a pirate IPTV customer database. As pirate IPTV providers and resellers continue to provide access to low-cost premium TV services, law enforcement agencies around the world are stepping u...