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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US Senate hearing on AI training: “The largest intellectual property theft in American history”

Meta, Google and other AI platforms are facing a growing chorus of accusations from stakeholders who say they knowingly ingest copyrighted content to drive...

Cloudflare adds feature to confuse AI scraper bots, drawing publishers praise

In March 2025, the CDN provider Cloudflare announced an anti-piracy feature designed to stop the operators of generative AI platforms from training their systems...

EU’s AI Code of Practice includes transparency, copyright and security requirements

The European Union's AI Act entered into force in August 2024.  In support of the AI Act, the European Commission released its General-Purpose AI...

UK: Brothers sentenced in extensive Yorkshire piracy case. Both jailed & fined.

On July 11, 2025, a suspect was jailed after conviction for selling illegal access to copyrighted content through the websites IPTV Hosting, Helix Hosting...

NSW2U and six other Illegal video game sites seized and dismantled by FBI

The FBI's Atlanta Field Office seized several online criminal marketplaces providing pirated versions of popular video games. In addition to the seizure, the FBI...

UK: Two arrested in West Midlands operation that streamed Sky programming illegally

On July 3, two homes were searched, equipment seized, and two individuals were arrested in the West Midlands town of Oldbury, for operating an...

US blocking policy could be determined by the Supreme Court in Cox-Sony infringement case

On June 30, the US Supreme Court agreed to review a lower court's decision for the years-old case between Cox Communications and Sony, in...

Singapore: Two arrested, suspected of selling illicit streaming devices, vaping devices

Two individuals were arrested as suspects, by Singapore's Criminal Investigation Department after coorinated raids in several locations. More than 100 illegal streaming devices (ISDs)...

It’s official: More people watch TV via streaming than they do on actual TV...

In May 2025, the television experience reached a milestone, sending an urgent call-to-arms to those who are fighting the scourge of piracy. For the first...

UK: Illegal streaming reseller skipped bail, nabbed in Barcelona and now jailed

The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit at City of London Police reported that a man who pocketed around £300,000 through the sale of an...

La Liga: Piracy down 60% by combining site blocking, legal and specialized practices

Participants at the EXTRATIME industry forum conducted in Singapore by La Liga, the international football league based in Spain; concluded that audiovisual fraud is...

France: 4,919 blocking requests and 124,522 consumer piracy warnings in 2024

Between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024, the French telecommunications regulator ARCOM received 4,919 domain name blocking requests from seven sports rights holders...

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