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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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Warned against uncontrolled infringement, OpenAI CEO says Sora 2’s content moderation will improve ‘soon’

At the end of September 2025, OpenAI released Sora 2, a version of OpenAI's video generation platform along with a companion Sora 2 app....

Netherlands: Seller of illegal IPTV devices and subscriptions shut down, fined, after BREIN investigation

An individual was advertising media players through Marktplaats.nl with "interesting features."  In response to the ads, the Dutch anti-piracy agency BREIN investigated the nature...

Poland: Police close down illegal pay-TV card sharing point. 49 year-old arrested

Police officers from Grójec identified the source of illegal satellite pay-TV signal distribution using data sharing and arrested a 49-year-old man. During a search...

Philippines regulator requests blocks against pirate platforms illegally streaming Filipino films

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) issued two site-blocking requests to internet service providers (ISPs) against platforms caught illegally streaming Filipino films,...

Denmark: Piracy is up. Consumers worry about consequences but do it anyway

A study from the Danish Chamber of Commerce shows that illegal consumption among Danes has grown significantly in just a few years. The majority...

Shields up: October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month

For years, the US federal government has promoted October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. 2025’s theme is Building a Cyber Strong America, highlighting the need...

Sweden: Proposed new law could mean fines on 700,000 users of illegal IPTV

Sweden's Minister of Culture has taken over a running investigation of pirate streaming services, from a government special investigator who estimated that about 700,000...

Thailand: 13-year pirate shut down in team effort by True Visions, ACE and Thai...

Operating since 2012, INWIPTV (formerly FWIPTV) charged users a subscription price of 300 Thai baht (approximately US $10) per month for access to a...

Research: Men more likely than women to commit piracy. A focus on reputation may...

Researchers explored the gender differences in illegal consumption, when calculated as percentage of total consumption by category (music and live sports).  The gender difference...

Italy: Piracy Shield cited for ‘Indiscriminate’ blocking, evasion by pirates using IPv6

An extensively researched technical report containing the first empirical data about the performance of Italy's legally-mandated Piracy Shield platform recognized serious errors and recommended...

Italy: €30M/month Illegal streaming network downed by regional authorities and Postal Police

Following a complex investigation and more than 70 searches across Italy, police officers of the Operational Center for Cyber Security in Catania, coordinated by...

MPA: The Criminal Infrastructure Hiding in Plain Sight: Unmasking Residential Proxies, Part 1

By: Larissa Knapp, EVP and Chief Content Protection Officer, Motion Picture Association, and Noopur Davis, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Security and Product Privacy...

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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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