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Digital media piracy, the unlicensed use or theft of copyrighted content, is the greatest enemy to creative professionals, consumers, rights-holders and their distribution partners the world over.  And today, piracy doesn’t occur in a vacuum: it’s often a consequence of flawed or inadequate cybersecurity practices; and while AI can be a tool in the fight against piracy, AI can also enable content theft and stealth attacks on a massive scale.

Piracy Monitor is an authoritative resource to help rights holders 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. 

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Recalling Betamax case: US Supreme Court to decide whether transport is copyright infringement

Can Internet service providers be held liable for copyright infringement simply by transporting copyrighted materials through their service platforms? In December, the US Supreme...

OpenAI must produce internal communications that could be infringement smoking gun

On November 24, 2025, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York directed OpenAI to produce internal and in-house-produced communications regarding...

nVidia sued for allegedly scraping copyright-protected video from YouTube, in potential class-action

Three creators that publish videos on YouTube claim that nVidia used their content to train nVidia's Cosmos AI model, without authorization from the publishers. Ted...

Eighth phase of Brazil’s Operation 404 takes down another 535 pirate sites and more

The 8th phase of Brazil's ongoing Operation 404 anti-piracy initiative by law enforcement at the end of November was the largest international mobilization in...

Germany: Two-year suspended jail sentence for operator of Share-Online cyberlocker

Share-Online was one of the largest cyberlockers in the German-speaking market, generating more than €50 million in revenue between 2008 and 2019 and enabling...

AAPA backs EU online piracy conclusions, calls piracy a threat to European culture

In a statement that responded to the European Commission's recent assessment of the piracy recommendations it published in 2023, the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA)...

Singapore: Court sentence third Sim Lim Square piracy defendant to prison, large fines

The director of Amconics Technology, Peggy Yu Peng Hsueh-Shu, was sentenced to 22 months’ imprisonment, and her company fined S$384,000 ** for selling illicit...

Anthropic AI attacked by autonomous AI platform. A first, said to be a nation-state...

In mid-September 2025, the AI company Anthropic - developer of the Claude LLM AI platform - detected a sophisticated cyber espionage operation conducted by...

LatAm: Annualized, online piracy losses exceeded US$8 Billion. Pay TV operators lost another US$2.8...

The number of residential Pay TV subscribers in Latin America and the Caribbean accessing pay TV signals illegally, plus underreporting, exceeds the number of...

European Commission releases Assessment of 2023 Piracy Recommendation, but no new recommendations

A much-anticipated Assessment was released by the European Commission, measuring the progress made against live event piracy by the EU as a consequence of...

Photocall sports pirate shuts down, had provided access to over 1,100 channels from 60...

Photocall, a website with pirated sports programming that had retransmitted live channels, has agreed to shutter the illicit operation. Following an investigation conducted...

Europol-led cyber-patrol places 69 illegal sites under scrutiny, hiding behind cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency has emerged as a payment method used for illicit IPTV and streaming services. One estimate found that cryptocurrency accounts for 20% of all...

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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. Piracy Monitor also conducts online events devoted to piracy/anti-piracy and cybersecurity.

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