Welcome to Piracy Monitor
Since 2019, Piracy Monitor has helped individuals, organizations and media stakeholders better understand the risks that live at the intersection of media theft, copyright infringement, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and personal agency; including causes, examples, use-cases, technical solutions and countermeasures, best-practices, lawsuits, regulation, and research. Concerned? We’ll work with you.
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Latest News
Comcast: AI helped drive nearly 80 billion cyber-threat events over one year within its base
Comments submitted to USTR for 2026 Notorious Markets Report
Fraudster sentenced for using AI automation against streaming platforms, to generate music royalties
Switch to passkeys: Email and social media account hacking in the UK rose by more than 400%
KillSec ransomware group downed by multinational law enforcement team and Europol
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Find your toolkits here – from non-commercial sources
US site blocking: Two bills would apply to non-US piracy sources but not to US domestic
EU: Fines from GDPR and Digital Markets violations should fund anti-piracy, says Danish Rights Alliance
UK: Summer 2026 anti-piracy enforcement resulted in shutdowns, fines, prosecutions, sentences
Anthropic 2026 Threat Intelligence Report: Claude increasingly used for cyberattacks, including by itself
Canal+ and LALIGA enter anti-piracy alliance spanning Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti
Argentina: While Summit championed antipiracy results, piracy is still on the rise and evolving
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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About Piracy
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.
USPTO 2025 Anti-piracy Symposium
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What you can do
