Detectives will pursue the perpetrators of piracy on the internet.
City of London police launched a unit in charge of pursuing the perpetrators of crimes against intellectual property.
Unit formed last Friday, immediately move and arrested two men suspected of importing pieces of pirated DVD video worth £ 40,000 or about Rp726 million in Birmingham.
Unit officers will cooperate with international agencies such as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. to address the counterfeiting of copyright in the form of physical production and sale of counterfeit goods.
Intellectual Property Crime Unit (Pipcu) will receive a budget of £ 2.56 million over the two years of the agency Intellectual Property Britain.
"Our focus will be to pursue professional criminals who use intellectual property crime to accumulate wealth that is unlawful," said the detective unit, Oliver Shaw told the BBC.
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Officers are trained in the investigation in the internet network will act based on information leaked from a number of parties to identify suspects in the UK, and is actively raiding sites offering illegal goods and music and video sites illegal downloaders.
This unit has the authority to seize goods and assets, and the company will encourage internet service providers to shut down websites that sell counterfeit goods.
Legitimate advertisers but unwittingly put ads on the site will be informed to stop illegal advertising service revenue to disrupt criminal gangs.
The team will also investigate the physical production and sale of counterfeit goods, for example, by pursuing the false tire counterfeiters criminals, detectives said Shaw.
British efforts to address these copyright crimes including the appointment Milke Weatherley, a member of parliament, as counsel of intellectual property rights by PM David Cameron.
Data issued by the agency Ofcom said nearly a quarter of Britons committing copyright infringement.
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