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 are produced by Advanced Media Strategies LLC. Steve Hawley is Managing Director. Unless bylined otherwise, all articles on this site are by Steve Hawley.
Latest News
Inquiring minds want to know: Did China’s DeepSeek scrape OpenAI?
Complaints mount toward Italy’s Piracy Shield incident reporting platform
USPTO Anti-piracy Symposium: Piracy and mitigation evolve while US still lags in pirate blocking
Italy designates its first Trusted Reporter under the EU’s Digital Services Act
AVIA 2025 Report: Despite progress, social and ad piracy soar across...
Operation Kratos: Further details emerge about 2024 Europe-wide take-down
USTR’s 2024 Notorious Markets report: 38 infringing online markets just scratches...
UK: North Yorkshire seller of modified Fire Sticks jailed for two...
Italy: Anti-piracy organization saw 2024 as a year of accomplishments
Danish court rules that live sports can be protected under copyright...
Spain: Can ‘settlement’ requests from LaLiga be ignored by piracy consumers?
Danish researcher finds that it pays to copy others: Study
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.