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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.

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Singapore blocks 22 more illegal streaming sites and 70 associated domains

The order by the Singapore High Court follows on from a similar order obtained in Singapore by the Premier League in November 2024 and...

Employee statements claim Meta used pirated material to train LLaMA AI in Kadrey case

LLaMA is a set of large language models (LLMs) - AI software platforms - created and maintained by Facebook parent Meta Platforms, to produce...

US court says use of copyrighted works to train AI is not fair use

A US Circuit judge sitting in US District Court in Delaware rejected a claim by Ross Intelligence Inc. that its use of Westlaw content...

More than 700,000 Swedish households have access to illegal IPTV, up 25% from 2023

Mediavision, a Stockholm-based media consultancy and research firm, said that about 16% of Swedish consumers accessed illegal IPTV services in 2024, which was up...

Safer Internet Day: Global consumer campaign educates about the hidden dangers...

This year, February 11 was Safer Internet Day.  It's an awareness-raising campaign to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology, especially for...

Brazil: Anti-piracy council sends confidential list of 393 blocked sites for...

As part of the Brazilian government's effort to combat digital piracy and protect citizens against cybercrime, Brazil's National Council for Combating Piracy and Crimes...

WIPO report presents overwhelming evidence that piracy site blocking is effective

A major report on blocking as an effective legal remedy against online piracy was presented at a February meeting of the Advisory Committee on...

Denmark: Music pirate loses appeal, fine and prison term extended

In a classic case of "be careful what you ask for...," a 54-year-old man from Eastern Jutland did not get what he wanted after...

2025 US anti-piracy bill includes blocking but cases could become mired...

H.R. 791, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), was introduced on January 28, to prevent foreign-run piracy sites from exploiting loopholes in existing law. Ranking...

Inquiring minds want to know: Did China’s DeepSeek scrape OpenAI?

In an ironic twist, AI platform provider OpenAI and its primary investor Microsoft are questioning whether China's open-source DeepSeek R1 generative artificial intelligence platform...

Complaints mount toward Italy’s Piracy Shield incident reporting platform

While it has succeeded in blocking pirate sources, opinions differ dramatically as to whether the blocking performance of Italy's Piracy Shield piracy detection and...

USPTO Anti-piracy Symposium: Piracy and mitigation evolve while US still lags...

"The more things change, the more they stay the same: Just as they were 20 years ago, cyberlockers with large-scale repositories of stolen content...

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