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.

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FACT warns 40 UK pirate operators: Stop or face prosecution – Three arrested

In a month-long coordinated and sequenced UK-wide initiative, the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and police targeted illegal IPTV operators across the UK, including...

Verizon “ignores” infringement notices. Music labels sue for $2.6B

Recording publishers Sony, Universal, Warner and ABKCO and multiple subsidiaries together filed a complaint against Verizon Communications, Verizon Wireless and Verizon Services Corp., second...

Bahrain court convicts and fines pirate found selling beIN Media programming

Posing as a legitimate distributor, an individual illegally sold and distributed sports and entertainment programming licensed for distribution by beIN Media Group in the...

Netherlands: Collaboration halts Illegal streaming service, users notified

The Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, in a collaboration with the anti-cybercrime efforts of the technology provider Irdeto, identified the operator of IPTVpremium, an illegal...

US Senate group intros bill to combat copyright violations in AI-generated...

Members of the US Senate AI Working Group introduced the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED ACT), which...

UK: Cheshire Police arrest individual suspected of online fraud, drug posession

A 51-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of fraud offences, possession of criminal property and possession of Class A drugs (cocaine). Officers conducted a...

UEFA praises Meta’s piracy policing; CreativeFuture says efforts could be better

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) reported on improvements to Meta's Rights Manager anti-piracy feature, as well as "additional protections preventing newly-created accounts...

Europol annual report cites progress against illegal streaming, cyber-threats

While Europol supported a number of anti-piracy efforts over the course of 2023, only one specific case made its way into its 2023 annual...

US privacy bills had bipartisan support until quashed by House Republican...

When it comes to online privacy, US regulations lag well behind the UK and Europe.  Against that backdrop, Republican leadership in the US House...

42% of Web traffic consists of bots, of which two thirds...

For businesses, bots are processes that enable electronic marketing, commerce and customer service transactions and are a foundational part of the fabric of doing...

Italy: 39% of residents accessed piracy sources with €2 Billion impact...

While the numbers are slightly lower than in 2022, piracy remained a serious concern in Italy; based on a 2023 consumer survey conducted by...

AVIA: Anti-piracy focus turns toward social media; most platforms cooperative, some...

The Asia Video Industry Association's Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) has increased its emphasis on engagement with leading social media and messaging platform providers in...

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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.

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