RIAA Reports AI Vocal Cloning Site ‘Voicify’ to the U.S. Government
Over the past year, new artificial intelligence tools and services have been surfacing everywhere. This AI boom followed the success of ChatGPT and many people believe these recent developments are just the beginning. While entrepreneurs and the public at large are mostly focused on the new possibilities the technology offers, many copyright holders are focused on potential threats. This includes the music industry’s anti-piracy arm,...
Genshin Impact: Major Private Server Dev Faces DMCA Subpoenas
With over 60 million players every month, Genshin Impact is one of the greatest success stories in videogames. The game stepped over the 60 million threshold in March 2022, and just over a year later hit a record 66.5 million. Since August, however, interest in the game has declined. The situation is hardly catastrophic but from a second 66.5m peak two months ago, player numbers in September returned to levels last seen in March 2022....
Movie Piracy is Strongly Linked to Box Office Revenue
Over the past 18 years, we’ve seen our fair share of piracy studies and research, but a finding presented this week ‘obviously’ stands out. Piracy research firm MUSO looked into the link between movie piracy volume and box office revenues. With piracy data on hundreds of films, the UK firm sits on a research goldmine. The company decided to put this to work by calculating the correlation between movie piracy and box office attendance....
Music Labels Warn Pirate Sites & Users After J-Pop & K-Pop Sites Shut Down
Back in August, users of Reddit and similar platforms lamented the sudden disappearance of two music piracy platforms. Somewhat predictably, Jpopmix.com specialized in J-pop, a form of Japanese popular music that first gained popularity in the 1990s. Kpoptap, a sister site almost identical in appearance to Jpopmix, specialized in South Korean K-pop. Around August 20, both disappeared offline with only the latter leaving a message:...
Premier League Puts Another IPTV Pirate in Prison; Spot The Subtle Messaging
When companies want to increase sales of their products, marketing teams work extremely hard to ensure that the target audience receives exactly the right message at precisely the right time. Anti-piracy campaigns may feel a little different due to messaging that deters sales; those relating to piracy services or devices, for example. However, at their heart anti-piracy campaigns are simply marketing campaigns tailored to a specific...
Reddit Sees Copyright Takedowns Peak While Subreddit Bans Drop
With millions of daily users, Reddit is without a doubt one of the most visited sites on the Internet. The community-oriented platform has “subreddits” dedicated to pretty much every topic one can think of, including several that are linked to online piracy and related issues. A few years ago copyright holders paid little attention to these discussions. In 2017, the site removed ‘just’ 4,352 pieces of content in response to copyright...
