Map reveals areas targeted in ‘dodgy Firestick’ crackdown – as millions of Brits issued warning over illegal streaming
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A MAP has revealed the areas targeted in a "dodgy Firestick" crackdown - as millions of Brits have been issued a warning over illegal streaming. The popular Firestick is modified by criminals to make premium content available on the cheap - showing Premier League games, movies and Sky channels.
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Now cops and the anti-piracy body Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) have been raiding homes all over the UK to crackdown on the use of illicit Amazon TV Fire Sticks. So far they have covered southern counties such as London, Kent, Sussex, and Norfolk, up to Cheshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire, to as far as Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Northumbria, and North Yorkshire.
Both the police and FACT aim to target more than 30 suppliers selling the dodgy sticks. FACT said the raid is the latest clampdown on illegal streaming operations, with courts also imposing tougher sentences on those who break the law. The raids began in November after police were alerted to people streaming sports and TV illegally.
As part of the operation, a 42-year-old man was arrested in Newport and under suspicion of being involved with selling the dodgy sticks. More people were visited and handed cease-and-desist letters. Only last month Jonathan Edge, 29, from Liverpool received a three-year jail term for selling and using the firesticks.
