Welcome to Piracy Monitor
Digital media piracy is the greatest enemy to creative professionals, consumers, rights-holders and their distribution partners the world over. To help them preserve their abilities to make a living and maintain operations, Piracy Monitor provides an authoritative resource so they can 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. Piracy Monitor also conducts online events devoted to piracy/anti-piracy and cybersecurity.
All are produced by Advanced Media Strategies LLC. Steve Hawley is Managing Director. Unless bylined otherwise, all articles on this site are by Steve Hawley.
Latest News
FACT warns 40 UK pirate operators: Stop or face prosecution – Three arrested
Verizon “ignores” infringement notices. Music labels sue for $2.6B
Bahrain court convicts and fines pirate found selling beIN Media programming
Netherlands: Collaboration halts Illegal streaming service, users notified
US Senate group intros bill to combat copyright violations in AI-generated...
UK: Cheshire Police arrest individual suspected of online fraud, drug posession
UEFA praises Meta’s piracy policing; CreativeFuture says efforts could be better
Europol annual report cites progress against illegal streaming, cyber-threats
US privacy bills had bipartisan support until quashed by House Republican...
42% of Web traffic consists of bots, of which two thirds...
Italy: 39% of residents accessed piracy sources with €2 Billion impact...
AVIA: Anti-piracy focus turns toward social media; most platforms cooperative, some...
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.