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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 technologies that help detect it, and about available countermeasures and practices against it.

Piracy Monitor also conducts the Video Security Summit, an annual online event devoted to piracy/anti-piracy and cybersecurity.  Both 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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EUIPO 2023 Copyright infringement study: Piracy has grown steadily since 2021

The EUIPO measured the number of monthly accesses per Internet user to copyright-infringing content in the 27 EU Member States for TV, music and...

IBC 2023: Verimatrix signs United Cloud, GTPL Hathway, Telus; extends partnerships

Verimatrix, provider of anti-piracy, app Agsecurity, multi-DRM and other video service protection technologies made a raft of announcements for the IBC 2023 conference. These included...

IBC 2023: Irdeto anti-piracy for DAZN, Media Prima; integrations with Evergent, cPortal

Digital platform cybersecurity provider Irdeto announced two customer-related anti-piracy-related collaborations and two technology partnerships at this week's IBC conference: September 15, 2023: Sports broadcaster DAZN...

Philippines: New study shows piracy sites are a greater threat than ever to consumers

The “Consumer Risks from Piracy in the Philippines” report builds off a 2022 report by Cyberstronomy, “Time to Compromise”, which looked at malware risks...

IBC 2023: NAGRA watermarking integrated with two production platforms; multi-DRM with...

Nagra announced two production workflow integrations for its NexGuard watermarking platform, and two integrations with its multi-DRM solution. September 15, 2023. Dubbing Brothers secure new...

IBC 2023: Bezeq’s yes adds watermarking; Synamedia focuses anti-piracy strategy

Synamedia demonstrated several new technology introductions and further progress with a pay TV operator in the Middle East,  in advance of IBC 2023. September 11,...

Denmark: File-sharing offender sentenced to probation and fine, following a proven...

According to Denmark's National Unit for Special Crime (NSK), the offender shared at least 242 Danish and foreign copyrighted works on the two now...

Europol: European Financial and Economic Crime Threat Assessment 2023

The Europol report looks at current and emerging threats relating to financial and economic crime.  Overall, intellectual property crime and counterfeiting are hard to...

Charter vs Disney: Tennis pro admitted to piracy when ESPN went...

A New York City hotel's pay TV service, Spectrum, would normally have carried the US Open tennis tournament but couldn't because ESPN, the Disney-owned...

Agenda out for USPTO Oct. 3 Roundtable: Future Strategies in Anticounterfeiting...

On October 3, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is hosting a roundtable session in support of its 2023 inquiry, Future Strategies...

ACE: Egyptian authorities shut down four pirate operators following three raids

ACE, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, announced the take-down of three commercial-scale piracy operations in Egypt that were illegally broadcasting live football matches...

AAPA perspectives: EU’s Digital Services Act failed on live event piracy,...

The UK-based Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) is a leading advocate in the European region.  "Piracy continues to cause considerable harm to the audiovisual sector,...

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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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