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Irdeto adds high-frequency key cycling to its DRM to tighten security for sports content and fight piracy.

RTL Luxembourg adds Verimatrix Counterspy, Deepscan & Watermarking to protect auto racing content.

ACE & DAZN shut down “Calcio” piracy site: 123M visits, 134 domains, top sports content, now redirected.

Nintendo wins $2M from a seller of Switch piracy hardware; seller banned from modding, distributing.

Brazil’s MPA panel at Expocine to tackle film/TV piracy: financial harm, strategy, enforcement & protection.

Live event piracy spikes: takedown notices up 142%, suspensions down to 5%, enforcement slow and weak.

TFCC seeks cybercrime help as 65 piracy sites using Cloudflare threaten producers after film leaks.

Sports piracy giant Streameast—1.6 billion visits—shut down by ACE and Egyptian police in global anti-piracy action.

Anti-piracy summit launches in Dublin on May 5—opened by Michael McDowell TD to address film and entertainment piracy.

Argentina takes down global IPTV piracy ring serving 8M users; LaLiga, MPA, and others joined forces.

IPTV piracy up 40% in Norway; 14% of households use illegal streams amid high legal subscription costs.

Cox urges Supreme Court to overturn $1B piracy ruling, calling it “defies common law and common sense.”