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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US Intel Community warns of weaponized AI, anonymous cyberattacks, ransomware

The release of the 2024 Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community coincided with a hearing by the Select Committee on Intelligence of...

Roku hit with credential-stuffing attack, locking users out of accounts

After detecting suspicious activity "indicating that certain individual Roku accounts may have been accessed by unauthorized actors," and following a subsequent investigation, Roku concluded...

MAX, Disney+ follow Netflix to limit password sharing – but does it go too...

At the March 2024 Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom conference, Jean-Briac Perrette, President and CEO of the Global Streaming and Games segment of...

UK: PIPCU, FACT and Premier League team up to tackle modified Fire Sticks, arrest...

As part of a crackdown on the supply of illegal streaming services, with a focus on individuals selling modified Amazon Fire Stick devices, the...

The boy who cried wolf? False positives blocked by Italy’s Piracy...

Piracy Shield, the piracy detection and case ticketing system recently implemented and activated by Italy's communications authority AGCOM, is intended as a centralized platform available to...

2024 Special 301 submissions by IPR stakeholders help US Trade Rep...

In December 2023, the Office of the US Trade Representative launched its 2024 Special 301 Report, an annual review to identify countries "that deny...

Special 301 Close-up: Malaysia has developed a successful anti-piracy framework

Malaysia is one of a handful of countries in the Asia-Pacific region that stands as an example against piracy.  Piracy has plummeted as a...

Special 301 Close-up: Premier League recommends regulator guidelines, countries to monitor

In its 2024 submission for the US Trade Representative's Special 301 Report, the Football Association Premier League, Ltd., recommended that the agency monitor Vietnam,...

Special 301 close-up: Amid progress, AVIA describes shadow vendor ecosystem for...

The submission to the USTR's Special 301 process by AVIA, the Asia Video Industry Association, was a mixed bag of progress and red flags....

Italy: Losses to piracy in 2023 outweighed consumer spending for video...

According to Italy's Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual and Multimedia Content Industries (FAPAV), Italians spent almost 3.6 billion euros on digital information and...

NIST repositions its Cybersecurity Framework for any organization

The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has released Version 2.0 of its NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), its first major update since...

Ireland: Third enforcement wave hits sellers of devices pre-loaded with illegal...

As part of an ongoing commitment against illegal streaming in the country, and to protect consumers from the risks posed by illegal streaming services,...

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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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