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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Guilty plea: Memphis man stole and sold pre-release DVDs and Blu-ray movies

Steven R. Hale, 37, of Memphis, appeared before United States District Court Chief Judge Sheryl H. Lipman on May 27, 2025 and entered a...

Netherlands: ‘IPTV’ reseller reimburses BREIN for €2,500 plus €500 for each future infringement

The Dutch anti-piracy agency BREIN settled in early June with a seller of media boxes and illegal IPTV subscriptions. This man was active on...

More than 90 recommendations to European Commission’s 2023 anti-piracy consultation

In May 2023, the European Commission issued a Recommendation toward combating online piracy of sports, urging stakeholders to take action against unauthorized re-transmission of...

Piracy is Piracy: Studios sue Midjourney, whose AI platform derives images from copyrighted works

The Midjourney Image Service is a generative artificial intelligence platform that produces images based on requests made by its subscribers. In early June, business units...

Europol: 2025 cybercrime threat assessment exposes black market ecosystem for stolen data

The Europol 2025 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) report reveals how stolen data fuels the digital underworld, powering a criminal ecosystem that spans...

Türkiye: Saran Media protects sports streaming through its S Sports Plus OTT platform

Saran Media Group one of the leading media companies specializing in sports and entertainment broadcasting across the Republic of Türkiye (previously Turkey), the Turkic...

MUSO says 2024 piracy was down somewhat from 2023, except for publishing

According to research released by the analytics company MUSO, piracy was shaped by three converging forces in 2024: Content access fragmentation, particularly in streaming;...

ITIF says US blocking of non-US piracy sites is long overdue, calls on Congress...

"As Congress considers initiatives to codify the blocking of foreign pirate websites into law, it is time to revisit the effectiveness of website blocking...

RAI joins IBCAP to protect Italian language programming from piracy in the US

With nearly 16 million people in the United States identifying as Italian American, Italian-language content is a popular media source for piracy and illegal...

Should the UK open copyrighted works to unlicensed data mining, to train AI platforms?

In December 2024, the UK Intellectual Property Office proposed changes to existing UK copyright law that would permit AI platforms to permit data mining...

$109M lawsuit filed against Meta by Eight Mile Style, for unlicensed social sharing of...

A publisher of music by Eminem filed a complaint in a US federal court against Meta Platforms for "wilful copyright infringement" by distributing its...

Singapore: Prison and fines for seller of illegal devices in Sim Lim Square

A seller of Illegal Streaming Devices (ISDs) in Sim Lim Square was sentenced today in relation to 34 charges selling ISDs that provided users...

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