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 articles and site content are produced by Advanced Media Strategies LLC. Steve Hawley is Managing Director.
Latest News
US Senate hearing on AI training: “The largest intellectual property theft in American history”
Cloudflare adds feature to confuse AI scraper bots, drawing publishers praise
EU’s AI Code of Practice includes transparency, copyright and security requirements
UK: Brothers sentenced in extensive Yorkshire piracy case. Both jailed & fined.
NSW2U and six other Illegal video game sites seized and dismantled by FBI
UK: Two arrested in West Midlands operation that streamed Sky programming illegally
US blocking policy could be determined by the Supreme Court in Cox-Sony infringement case
Singapore: Two arrested, suspected of selling illicit streaming devices, vaping devices
It’s official: More people watch TV via streaming than they do on actual TV...
UK: Illegal streaming reseller skipped bail, nabbed in Barcelona and now jailed
La Liga: Piracy down 60% by combining site blocking, legal and specialized practices
France: 4,919 blocking requests and 124,522 consumer piracy warnings in 2024
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.