An entire motorcade of police cars came for the Englishman suspected of “piracy”

Hollywood films about bandits and valiant (or not so) policemen often show how a motorcade of police cars goes to the crime scene, surrounds the criminal’s house, and the operation to capture the attacker begins. Usually we see such pictures when some malicious killer maniac acts as a criminal. But it seems that the British police consider the "pirates" as dangerous. So, 5 police cars and about a dozen police officers arrived at once to detain one of the suspected piracy.

Now in such operations, the FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) unit is participating together with the police, the initiator of which can be considered the MPAA. In this case, the police and FACT employees drove up to the house of the "criminal" with fanfare, if I may say so, but it turned out that the suspect was no longer residing in the place. Then, a smaller number of cars, three, and six people, went to a new address, where they found a "pirate".

In the man’s house, three servers, a desktop computer, clean hard drives and clean “blanks” were discovered. The “pirate” himself is 24 years old, and was suspected of illegally copying the film “Fast and Furious 6,” plus some other paintings. True, apart from the specified equipment, nothing more was found in the suspect's house. Neither the equipment for shooting the movie in the cinema, nor the evidence of the distribution of pirated copies of the film by this young man.



After the suspect was detained for 3 hours and 12 minutes, he had to be released. As the detainee himself noted, they interviewed him for about 40 minutes, and during that time a lot of questions were asked about accomplices, the principles of obtaining pirated copies of films, and more. And even despite the fact that this man had to be released, he was forbidden to attend movie theaters in England and Wales until September 23 this year, while an investigation is underway.

Via torrentfreak