Welcome to Piracy Monitor
Since 2019, Piracy Monitor has helped individual persons, organizations and media stakeholders better understand the risks that live at the intersection of copyright theft, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and personal agency; including use-cases, causes, examples, countermeasures, solutions and research. Concerned? We’ll work with you.
Latest News
New York Times: AI “has raided civilization’s entire corpus of original works”
UK: Welsh pub supervisor found guilty, fined £19k for showing Sky Sports without license
KRATOS 2 anti-piracy operation culminates in 27,000 takedowns, 29 arrests; 9 organized crime groups dismantled
EUIPO takes another step toward harmonizing copyright information across Europe
UK: MB Streams pirate gets 3 years’ prison under Fraud Act after generating £200k...
UK: Pirate services disrupted nationwide after data center shutdown; £1.2 million in equipment seized
Spliiit says it gives consumers a legitimate account sharing forum. A Paris court...
Germany: Pirates made €2.4 billion from illegal TV streaming in 2025, up 33% from...
EC AI Office: Debate remains over how to identify AI-generated material as policy draft...
FBI warns of phishing-as-a-service against Microsoft 365 and multi-factor authentication
UK: High Court’s omnibus site blocking order follows pirates even as they change names...
Kenya blocks Web sites in a trial phase of Copyright Board’s 72-hour site blocking...
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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. 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.
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What you can do
