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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: High Court blocks more illegal sites and domains, Piracy study released

The Singapore High Court ordered the blocking of 26 illegal streaming sites and more than 100 associated domains responsible for the distribution of illegally...

American Privacy Rights bill introduced to US Congress: a GDPR it isn’t

By Steven Hawley Piracy of media content occurs when a criminal actor gains access to protected works without permission.  Often, this begins when the actor...

Italy: AGCOM fines ASSOProvider over Piracy Shield in political back-and-forth

Italy's Communications Authority (AGCOM) has fined the Association of Internet Service Providers (ASSOProvider) after the latter requested a list of ISPs monitored by AGCOM's...

Italy: Mediaset joins national Piracy Shield platform in time for Italian Cup matches

The Italian broadcaster Mediaset announced that it joined Piracy Shield, the initiative of AGCOM, Italy's Communications Authority; as a rights-holder.  Mediaset noted that anti-piracy...

Disney: CEO Iger reveals timing against account sharing, sort of

"In June, we'll be launching our first real foray into password sharing," disclosed Disney CEO Bob Iger, in an interview on CNBC's business program...

Denmark: Seventh sentencing ends long-running Asgaard file sharing case

Denmark's National Unit for Special Crime (NSK), through a confession case in the Court in Horsens, sentenced a 48-year-old man from East Jutland to...

Source code for Italy’s Piracy Shield platform published on GitHub, likely...

Reports emerged that Piracy Shield, the anti-piracy platform deployed by Italy's Communications Guarantee Authority (AGCOM) has itself been pirated. An unknown individual registered himself under...

Studios sue Dallas-based operator of multiple piracy sites for copyright infringement

Defendant William Freemon and his business entity Freemon Techology Industries LLC operate illegal streaming services under multiple names, including STREAMINGTVNOW.COM, TVNITRO.NET, LIVETVRESELLERS.COM and others;...

Spain: Suspected as a path for piracy, Court blocks Telegram but...

On March 21, a Spanish court ordered the Telegram social messaging service to suspend operations after receiving complaints from media companies including Movistar (Telefonica),...

India: The actual risk of malware from piracy sites is at...

Consumers aged 18-24 were more likely to access piracy websites but were the least aware of the associated cyber risks, according to a malware...

Dane to appeal jail and fines for restreaming manipulated copyrighted music

A 53-year-old man from East Jutland was sentenced on March 21st, to 1 year and six months in prison, of which three months were...

AI Act: Wary of limitations, bias, and errors, EC adds researcher...

The European Union's AI Act, which is the world's first legal framework on AI, is designed to ensure that Europeans can trust what AI...

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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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