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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Synamedia’s Senza pre-integrated IP video service platform: Is it secure?

By Steve Hawley Technology supplier Synamedia launched Senza, a cloud-based service delivery platform for pay TV and entertainment, and for vertical segments including digital signage,...

Nordic Content Protection launches Denmark phase of 2024 piracy awareness campaign

In response to dramatic increases in the use of illegal television services, Norway-based Nordic Content Protection has launched an extensive information campaign to make...

Man arrested for sharing nude scenes from Danish films last year on Reddit

On September 3, Denmark's National Unit for Serious Crime (NSK) arrested a 39-year-old man from Valby and charged him with copyright infringement by sharing...

AI data-set supplier Common Crawler agrees to stop illegal copying of Danish content

Following a formal request from the Danish Rights Alliance, the Web archive known as Common Crawl has agreed to stop copying content from websites...

Vietnam-based Fmovies piracy ring taken down, had nearly 374 million visits...

The Motion Picture Association's Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) collaborated with Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security, the Hanoi Municipal Police and US federal...

UK: FACT and Crimestoppers run six week anti-piracy campaign on social...

Running over six weeks on Facebook and Instagram, the campaign aimed to gather intelligence on individuals or groups involved in advertising or selling illegal...

Australia: Consumer piracy down, cyber-risks way up. CCA launches awareness campaign

While Australians consumed more content than ever in 2023 across virtually all content model categories, the percentage of consumers classified as 'active pirates' decreased...

Nordic update: Danish producers want distributor boycott. New sharing terms...

Swedish media consultancy Mediavision reported that Viaplay, the Sweden-based media producer and distirbutor of TV programming and films, has announced a crackdown on account...

Updated Services Agreement adds AI section, distances Microsoft from outside copyright...

Microsoft announced updates to its Services Agreement, which become effective on September 24, 2024.  One of the Agreeement's new features is an added section...

New Zealand orders extradition of indicted pirate Kim Dotcom to the...

Making a fortune from the now-shuttered file sharing site Megaupload, Kim Dotcom became one of the more flamboyant figures in the piracy world. On...

Illegal anime streaming Web site with visitors from the world over,...

ANIMEFLIX, a notorious piracy website dedicated to anime content, was shut down by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE).  Based near Helsinki, Finland,...

Three pirate operators agree to pay $2 million in settlement with...

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) announced settlements with three U.S.-based illegal streaming (IPTV) operators. As part of the settlements, those operators were...

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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.

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