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.

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FACT and police intensify efforts against illegal devices and streaming, UK-wide

In a two-week enforcement operation, police forces across the UK and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) together targeted 30 suppliers of illegal IPTV...

Illegally cloned voice of ‘Hitman’ game’s Agent 47 taken down by Danish Rights Alliance

ElevenLabs, whose technology generates voice content for use in audiobooks and voice-overs, was found by the Danish Rights Alliance to have the voice of...

France: Arcom releases 2024 piracy studies. Site blocking seen as effective

Arcom, France's Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communications, has released new assessments of the impact of the illicit consumption of audiovisual and sports...

Workshop in Warsaw: Watermarking and Open Source Intelligence in practice

The Poland-based Sygnał Association conducted a workshop on the protection of audiovisual content at TVN's headquarters at ul. Wiertnicza 166 in Warsaw. The event...

UK: Publican at The Bank TS20 in Stockton-on-Tees ordered to pay...

A licensee in Stockton-on-Tees, UK, was showing Sky Sports programming illegally in their premises, and was ordered in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC)...

Europol, AAPA and police take down €250M/month piracy operation, said to...

Law enforcement agencies in Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Croatia and England, the Catania Public Prosecutor’s Office, and the Croatian State Attorney Office for Suppression of...

Close-up: Collaboration and tough love are keys to MultiChoice Group anti-piracy...

By Steven Hawley The MultiChoice Group is Africa's largest media company and leading entertainment platform, serving more than 70 million subscribers and 23 million pay...

Icelandic operator Sýn is the latest to join Nordic Content Protection...

Sýn HF, the media company which came into being through the merger of Vodafone Iceland, Iceland's Channel 2 Media, and other Icelandic broadcasters in...

Leak Alert: 2 billion rows of sensitive data exposed on Telegram

By Sharon Knowles, Da Vinci CyberSecurity, South Africa In May 2024, cybersecurity sources including DataBreaches.net and Cybernews.com reported 2 billion rows of sensitive data surfacing...

Brazil: Anti-piracy strikes in Sao Paulo & Santa Catarina follow Operation...

Brazil's MJSP (Ministry of Justice and Public Security) announced Operation Safe Commerce, a new anti-piracy initiative by the Civil Police of Santa Catarina (SC)...

Success rates low against EC anti-piracy recommendations: Takedown notices ignored

In 2023, the European Commission published a non-legislative recommendation toward combating online piracy of sports and other live events, encouraging stakeholders to take appropriate...

Platform tranparency is crucial to rights protection once ingested by AI,...

Drawing from analysis of 13 generative AI platforms that it developed for a study of platform transparency it released in September, the Danish Rights...

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