Protection against online piracy
Group-IB Anti-Piracy protects brands against pirated usage and unauthorized distribution of their unique digital content.
Global online piracy has been on the rise for years. Despite increasingly available legal streaming options, online piracy remains a significant concern for many industries relating to information technologies, software, telecommunications, audio recording, movie and TV show production, and the sports and entertainment segments.
During the pandemic, traffic to pirated websites increased by 40%. Shadow revenues are also increasing. To put it into perspective: the annual income of an average illegal online cinema is around $160,000, while a pirated content streaming website makes $89,000 per year on average.
The most pirated content — quick facts
Videos
Online streams
TV shows and movies
Software
Computer games
E-books
Articles
Music
Sports broadcasts
Protect your digital content and revenue
Group-IB‘s Anti-Piracy team uses unique machine-learning technologies applied to complex investigations of cyberattacks in order to detect pirate resources, identify their owners, and block infringing content.
Group-IB leverages its reputation among hosting providers and domain registrars worldwide to promptly remove unauthorized content.
We collaborate with the leading anti-piracy associations and law-enforcement agencies to combat online piracy on a global scale.
of links to illegal resources are successfully blocked within 7 days
of pirated content is removed on a pre-trial basis
is the average time to detect the first pirated copy of a movie
How it works:
01. Monitoring
Group-IB’s Anti-Piracy monitors more than 100,000 resources in multiple languages ranging from torrent trackers and streaming services to groups in social media and pirated platforms on the deep and the dark web.
Sources
- Domain name databases
- Search engines
- Social media
- Mobile app stores
- Marketplaces and classifieds platforms
- Advertising
- Instant messengers
02. Violation detection
We have developed advanced digital fingerprinting technology that helps compare digital copies using a set of parameters. Any type of pirated content can be detected, even if it has been significantly modified.
Our Anti-Piracy team verifies all detected links to ensure that no legal content is blocked by accident.
We detect:
- Pirated content
- Pirated online streams
03. Enforcement
We use moderator accounts and programs for trusted vendors to remove unauthorized content immediately. We swiftly:
- Remove pirated copies
- Take down pirated online resources
- Block access to malicious resources
- Alert users of piracy attempts
Additional services:
- Investigation
- Legal support
Video Content We Protected
Game of Thrones
Khabib vs. McGregor
John Wick
Westworld
Chernobyl
BumbleBee
Now You See Me 2
True Detective
Terminator: Genisys
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Spectre
Fury
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
The Hateful Eight
American Heist
How secure is your digital content?
Online piracy research
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