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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
Digital video piracy costs the US economy up to $71 bln each year
Online streams
Illegal streaming services account for over 80% of global online piracy
TV shows and movies
$51.6 bln in economic losses due to online TV & movie piracy projected by 2022
Software
37% of software running in the world are unlicensed
Computer games
21% of users download games from illegal sources
E-books
US publishers lose $300 mln per year to piracy
Articles
Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth
Music
24% of users download music from illegal sources
Sports broadcasts
The Premier League blocked over 200,000 pirate broadcasts in just 1 season in 2021, and the financial damage is estimated at a loss of revenue of around £1 mln per game.
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.
80%
of links to illegal resources are
successfully blocked within 7 days
87%
of pirated content is removed
on a pre-trial basis
30 min
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
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
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Online piracy research
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