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 articles and site content are produced by Advanced Media Strategies LLC. Steve Hawley is Managing Director.

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Spain: Four sellers of illegal BlusensTV devices sentenced to six months prison, fined €1.2M

On April 9, Criminal Court number 2 of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, sentenced four businessmen to six month prison terms, a fine of 6...

Lost: 193,000 jobs, $25B in value-creation and over $6B tax revenue to piracy in...

An annual report titled “Intellectual Property, Jobs & Prosperity in the Nordic Region” aims to raise awareness about the value of intellectual property and...

Viva Holdings signs anti-piracy MOU with Philippines Intellectual Property Office

Viva Holdings, Inc. and its 37 subsidiaries became the 105th signatory to the E-Commerce Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen protection of its content...

IBCAP’s automated VOD monitoring & takedown system complements streaming anti-piracy platform

The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) has launched a proprietary, automated software-based system to identify and remove infringing video-on-demand (VOD) content on set-top...

Malawi: Partnerships complement broadcast policy in the battle against piracy

At MultiChoice Malawi's annual showcase for the news media, both government officials and company representatives stressed the need for collaboration. Baldwin Chiyamwaka, Principal Secretary for...

UK: Pirates foiled by bank’s fraud desk after trying to loot...

A video consumer watching Sky Sports thought that the site he was watching on recommendation of his friends was safe, when in reality it...

Netherlands: Home IT tech repaired computers, sold illegal TV services, stole...

He sounded like a computer guy that many people would like to have in their network, but soon after that the trouble started.  Several...

IBCAP: Anti-piracy org coordinates $25 million lawsuit against piracy wholesalers

The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) announced the filing of a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas against...

Paris court decrees Cloudflare must triple-block access to illegal MotoGP broadcasts

MotoGP, the organization behind the highest racing class in Grand Prix motorcycle racing, won a decision by the the Paris Judicial Court that requires...

Partial wins for both sides in New York Times vs OpenAI...

"Independent journalism is vital to our democracy. It is also increasingly rare and valuable. For more than 170 years, The Times has given the...

Korean copyright agency seeks experts to support overseas infringement cases

The Republic of Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Copyright Protection Agency (KCPA) have been recruiting participating companies and implementing...

Rights-holders call EU’s AI Code of Practice inadequate, with no mechanism...

The European Union's AI Office set up a Working Group to produce a voluntary General Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice (CoP) that AI...

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