Crackdown on dodgy boxes: 15 retail outlets targeted in nationwide piracy operation

FACT employees delivering a notice to a premises last month.

Fifteen retail outlets in nine counties were targeted in an enforcement operation to clamp down on people using so-called "dodgy boxes" to access illegal streaming services.

FACT (the Federation Against Copyright Theft), one of the main UK and Ireland-based organisations working with broadcasters and rights holders to protect their intellectual property (IP), said its agents, alongside representatives from Sky, delivered legal notices to retailers in Kerry, Louth, Laois, Mayo, Donegal, Kilkenny, Wexford, Meath, and Cavan last month.