Motion Picture Association, Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment and IPR Center strengthen public-private partnership to protect film and TV content

Key illegal piracy operator, SPARKS Group’s George Bridi is sentenced, marking successful result in “Operation Intangibles.”

The IPR Center, in conjunction with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), leveraged their vast authorities and international law enforcement partnerships to intercept and dismantle this criminal organization’s cyber piracy network and arrest those allegedly responsible. With these actions, the servers that were the pipeline for wholesale theft of intellectual property are now out of service.