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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.

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Denmark: If an actor’s nude scenes are on Reddit, is it piracy?

The Danish Rights Alliance raises an important concern, and called upon Reddit to prevent users from uploading content illegally, just as with Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Kulturen, a series TV...

Japan: 13DL, a malicious “Leech” site, was closed down but had a final gift

The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA) confirmed the May 23 shutdown of 13DL (13dl.to), a malicious piracy site that had attracted the largest traffic of any Japanese publication site. 13DL...

Quebec, Canada: Notorious individual investigated, raided after signal theft complaint

Billing itself as "The Future of TV, with "All channels, all films, all series in all languages," the $250 Arubox.tv streaming service offers 3,500 TV channels from Québec, Canada,...

EC issues internal guidance for use of generative AI, with exceptions for itself

Staffers of the European Commission were advised by internal memo to consider whether generative AI might be violating intellectual property rights before using its output in official communications because...

India: Thanks to Spiderman, High Court orders pre-emptive blocking

Sony Pictures Animation released "Spider Man: Across The Spider-Verse" in India on June 2nd.  Acting on Sony's application for interlocutory injunctive relief, that distribution...

UK: Premier League, FACT, tout 30 years of jail terms for...

Trading under the names Flawless, Shared VPS and Optimal (also known as Cosmic), the fraudulent operations generated in excess of £7 million in just...

Denmark: Pirate steals music streaming royalties, still hasn’t been brought to...

The Danish Rights Alliance reports about an East Jutland man who allegedly used automation to generate fraudulent playbacks of hundreds of works on various...

USPTO seeks public comment aimed at steering future anti-piracy strategy

The US government is no bystander when it comes to policy and initiatives relating to piracy and anti-piracy.  Active efforts against piracy are ongoing...

Philippines: Site blocking bill passes House, advances to Senate

AVIA, the Asia Video Industry Association, reported the successful passage of HB7600, a site blocking proposal, through the Philippines' House of Representatives to amend...

Netherlands: Illegal streaming service busted, leads to money laundering operation

An illegal IPTV operation was taken down by the Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) of the Netherlands.  With an illicit streaming device purchased...

UK: Fines approach £9k for pub licensees showing Sky Sports without...

The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) brought charges against the licensees of the Devonport Arms in Paignton, Devon, for three offenses of broadcasting Sky...

AtomoHD pirate streamer is down; was Spain’s largest with 9M visitors...

AtomoHD enabled users to illegally stream and download content from a VOD library of more than 13,000 movies and 4,500 TV series in Spanish...

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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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