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.
Latest News
Guilty plea: Memphis man stole and sold pre-release DVDs and Blu-ray movies
Netherlands: ‘IPTV’ reseller reimburses BREIN for €2,500 plus €500 for each future infringement
More than 90 recommendations to European Commission’s 2023 anti-piracy consultation
Piracy is Piracy: Studios sue Midjourney, whose AI platform derives images from copyrighted works
Europol: 2025 cybercrime threat assessment exposes black market ecosystem for stolen data
Türkiye: Saran Media protects sports streaming through its S Sports Plus OTT platform
MUSO says 2024 piracy was down somewhat from 2023, except for publishing
ITIF says US blocking of non-US piracy sites is long overdue, calls on Congress...
RAI joins IBCAP to protect Italian language programming from piracy in the US
Should the UK open copyrighted works to unlicensed data mining, to train AI platforms?
$109M lawsuit filed against Meta by Eight Mile Style, for unlicensed social sharing of...
Singapore: Prison and fines for seller of illegal devices in Sim Lim Square
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.