FACT investigation leads to the first UK prosecution for a ‘Release Group’

This landmark sentencing marked the first UK criminal prosecution of an online ‘release group.’ Five men, members of interrelated movie release groups like RemixHD, and Hope/Resistance, received sentences totalling over 17 years for releasing thousands of movies on the internet. The investigation, spanning three years, aimed to track these individuals who put over £52m of Hollywood revenues at risk. FACT, in its most aggressive private prosecution to date, had evidence of more than 9,000 movie releases between March 2010 and January 2014.