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Digital media piracy is the greatest enemy to creative professionals, rights-holders and their distribution partners the world over. Piracy Monitor exists to help them better understand the risks associated with piracy, the technologies that help detect it, and about available countermeasures and best practices against it; to help them preserve their abilities to make a living and maintain operations. Piracy Monitor is published by Advanced Media Strategies LLC. Steve Hawley is Managing Director.
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Irdeto Denuvo launches Unbotify analysis tool against game cheating online
AMSTERDAM – March 21, 2023 - Irdeto has relaunched a unique technology focused on behavioral biometric analysis for bot detection in video games. Denuvo Unbotify is able to identify bots in real-time...
EUIPO discussion paper: Fighting the piracy of live events
This discussion paper looks at the different technical stages of the live streaming process and the online intermediaries involved. It explains the advantages and limits of the anti-piracy measures that can...
Denmark: Music stream-ripping services declared illegal, must be blocked
The Danish Rights Alliance announced it won a blocking case that included the nine most popular 'stream ripping services' in Denmark. Stream ripping was judged illegal on March 13 by a court...
Warning notices delivered to illegal streaming providers in Ireland
Cease-and-desist notices instruct those running the services to immediately cease all illegal streaming activity otherwise risk facing the consequences, including criminal prosecution, said the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). Between the...
Omi in a Hellcat: Gears TV pirate gets 66 months in prison, forfeits $30...
According to a 62-count indictment issued by a US Federal Court following his arrest in September 2021, Bill Omar Carrasquillo, also known as Omi in a Hellcat - and...
Europol and police of four countries hit DoppelPaymer ransomware cyberattackers
By Steven Hawley, Piracy Monitor. With support from Europol, Dutch Police (Politie) and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations, German Regional Police (Landeskriminalamt Nordrhein-Westfalen - LKA NRW) and...
ACE wins pirate site shutdowns in Middle East and Vietnam
The Alliance for Creativity and Media (ACE) announced several wins against piracy during February. In Vietnam, a Hanoi-based piracy ring targeted a global audience with English language programming. Meanwhile,...
UK: Four arrested in anti-piracy crackdown headed by London Police
Officers of the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), City of London Police, searched four premises in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stoke; resulting in the arrest of four people...
Worldwide visits to film and TV piracy sites up 36% and 9% respectively, says...
According to data collected by the piracy analytics company MUSO, piracy will continue to rise in 2023; due to economic pressures on consumers and the fragmentation of availability across...
Denmark: Sentence and fine for seller of seedboxes that enabled illegal sharing
On February 28, the Danish owner of an online service company was convicted for selling seedboxes and server capacity, knowing that they were used for illegal sharing of no less...
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