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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.
Latest News
India: MKVCinemas domains and drive-cloning tool dismantled at request by ACE
Disney invests $1B in OpenAI, licenses 200 copyrighted characters for videos made by Sora and ChatGPT users
France: Even as piracy trends downward, ARCOM suggests new measures to stay a step ahead
Subscribers paid Swedish IPTV pirate in Bitcoin. Authorities seized and converted it into over $1M
Recalling Betamax: US Supreme Court to decide whether Cox transport is copyright infringement
OpenAI must produce internal communications that could be infringement smoking gun
nVidia sued for allegedly scraping copyright-protected video from YouTube, in potential class-action
Eighth phase of Brazil’s Operation 404 takes down another 535 pirate sites and more
Germany: Two-year suspended jail sentence for operator of Share-Online cyberlocker
AAPA backs EU online piracy conclusions, calls piracy a threat to European culture
Singapore: Court sentence third Sim Lim Square piracy defendant to prison, large fines
Anthropic AI attacked by autonomous AI platform. A first, said to be a nation-state...
Unless noted otherwise, all articles and site content are produced by and © Advanced Media Strategies LLC. Steve Hawley is Managing Director.
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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