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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Comcast publishes 2024 Cybersecurity Threat Report. Comcast contractor hit with cyberattack

An analysis of 29 billion attempted cybersecurity attacks against customers of Comcast Business found that cybercriminals leverage AI to create more convincing deepfakes and...

South Africa’s StarSat pay TV offices raided over license issues. But it’s not piracy

In July 2023, the license to broadcast television programming into South Africa that was issued to On Digital Media (pty) Ltd (ODM), the parent...

AAPA sets five-year piracy policy priorities in its 2024-2029 Manifesto

The European region's media & entertainment ecosystem is integral to its economy, contributing more than 5% of the EU's GDP and a similar percentage...

Will Facebook parent Meta resume paying for its use of Deutsche Telekom’s network?

Deutsche Telekom is on a campaign to restore its revenue stream from Meta, which stopped paying DT for the 3.5 terabytes-per-second of data transport...

France: ARCOM offers template for site blocking requests, which were up...

Calling it a turning point in the fight against the piracy of sports broadcasts, ARCOM, France's regulator for audiovisual and digital communication, said that...

Argentina: Magis TV blocked, its Android app shut down as part...

All domains related to the illegal streaming service Magis TV are to be blocked, after an order by the Justice department of Argentina. In...

Brazil announces Operation 404 Phase 7, and first wins under Operation...

The results of two anti-piracy initiatives by Brazil were announced in recent weeks: Phase 7 of Brazil's ongoing Operation 404, and a new initiative...

US FTC: User data is an open book. Platform providers prioritize profit over...

In September 2024, the FTC released a report with analysis and the conclusion that there is an "inherent tension between business models that rely...

Digital Citizens Alliance: Pirate site blocking is effective, examples can guide...

According to a September 2024 report by IPHouse and published by Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA), global piracy has quietly become a massive $2 billion-plus...

Predator spyware perpetrators blocked, sanctioned by US Treasury Department

On Sept. 17, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned five individuals and one entity for their role...

IBC 2024: Irdeto demos VOD piracy detection with IMDb, customer wins,...

At the annual IBC convention in Amsterdam, Irdeto demonstrated solutions in three areas: user experience, cybersecurity and anti-piracy. Irdeto also demonstrated a solution developed in...

Report: Data transparency and enforcement of copyright by AI model providers...

Before artificial intelligence platform large language models can produce anything useful, they must be 'trained,' meaning that they must be 'fed' with content that...

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