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Digital media piracy, the unlicensed use or theft of copyrighted content, is the greatest enemy to creative professionals, consumers, rights-holders and their distribution partners the world over.  And today, piracy doesn’t occur in a vacuum: it’s often a consequence of flawed or inadequate cybersecurity practices; and while AI can be a tool in the fight against piracy, AI can also enable content theft and stealth attacks on a massive scale.

Piracy Monitor is an authoritative resource to help rights holders better understand the risks associated with piracy, the methods used by pirates, technologies that help detect it, and about available countermeasures and practices against it. 

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Google Gemini AI can data-mine you and now, your Google Workspace. Can pirates weaponize this?

Google announced new features that connect data generated by group members within a Google Workspace to the Gemini Deep Research assistant in Google's Gemini...

UEFA and Europol renew collaboration MOU for joint investigations and other anti-piracy activities

Europol and UEFA renewed and extended their Memorandum of Understanding, which focuses on preventing and combating crime while protecting the integrity of European football....

Netherlands: Common Crawl removes 2 million scraped news articles, complying with request

In November, the Dutch anti-piracy agency BREIN reported that Common Crawl is removing over 2 million news articles from its database, which has contained...

Philippines: Popular actors appeal against piracy and cyber risks in new awareness campaign

Digital piracy continues to trouble the Philippine media sector.  In response, the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has launched a series of...

Japan: CODA concerned by Sora 2 generated content, files a usage and permissions request...

Suspecting that the content created by its member companies is being used by OpenAI's Sora 2 platform unlicensed, Japan-based Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA)...

Authors Guild et al: OpenAI loses appeal over unlicensed use of fictional works by...

A US District Court judge has denied a request by OpenAI to dismiss the long-running lawsuit against it, in the latest chapter of the...

Dissecting YouTube’s malware distribution network, an alternative to phishing and deceptive ads

Active since 2021, a network of malicious YouTube accounts has distributed thousands of malicious videos that serve as engagement mechanisms while those accounts distribute...

Taiwan: 12 individuals charged in sales of illicit streaming devices seized in 2023

the Taoyuan District Prosecutors’ Office concluded an investigation and formally charged a total of 12 individuals involved in the coordinated sale of illicit streaming...

Europol: October conference highlights intellectual property crime in the digital age

In continuation of the fight against counterfeiting and piracy both online and offline, an intellectual property crime conference took place during October in Sofia,...

Spain: LaLiga recommends improvements to Dynamic IP-blocking proposal, which had failed

A Spanish governmental committee voted on a Non-Legislative Proposal (PNL) concerning dynamic IP address blocking in the context of the fight against audiovisual fraud....

USTR’s 2025 Notorious Market Report: Comments and rebuttals are in

Each year, the Office of the US Trade Representative produces two major reports about counterfeiting and piracy.  One of them is the Review of...

South Africa: MultiChoice joins copyright advocates to champion anti-piracy for Heritage Month

Heritage Month is designed to recognize South Africa's cultural traditions, and the 2025 theme is 'Re-imagining our heritage institutions for a new era.'  In...

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Piracy Monitor is an initiative of tvstrategies (Advanced Media Strategies LLC), and is active in four areas: Piracy Awareness, Market Intelligence, Industry Marketing and Consulting. Piracy Monitor also conducts online events devoted to piracy/anti-piracy and cybersecurity.

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