In the fight against software and movie piracy, Kapow delivers a major advance in intellectual property and revenue protection.
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Fight media piracy and protect against lost revenue with automated web intelligence
Media piracy on the web accounts for hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenue every year for media companies and artists. The ability to automatically monitor and collect evidence from pirated downloads and BitTorrent sites has become a critical weapon in fighting this problem.
Featured Customer Success Stories in AntiPiracy:
Challenge
- Identify instances of copyright infringement, where the company's products have been illegally copied and shared online.
- Implement a cost effective mechanism for searching thousands of sites daily for infringing content.
- Address day-to-day requirements as well as peak demand surrounding major product releases.
Solution
- Kapow solution searches daily for illegally copied materials from the company's back catalog.
- Scales to meet peak demand surrounding new product releases using flexible scheduling rules and automatic load-balancing.
- Provides a central resource for the company's global anti-piracy initiative.
Results
- Enables the company to identify and remove infringing content more rapidly than ever before.
- Provides a centralized anti-piracy infrastructure available to all departments.
- Enables targeting of specific new product releases for the first time, resulting in the detection of millions of copyright infringements for a single product
- Reduces labor costs by automating web intelligence and aggregation, enabling staff to be redeployed.
Kapow is a powerful weapon in the fight against web piracy.
Challenge
- Search the web for illegally copied material.
- Extract structured data from thousands of sites to find copyright infringements.
- Gather evidence for use in copyright infringement prosecution cases.
Solution
- Using current artist/title catalog , the agency uses Kapow robots to search hundreds of forums, blogs and peer-to-peer websites every day to find illegally posted content.
- Copyright infringements are reported to the copyright owner and takedown notices are automatically issued to the hosting website.
Results
- Enabled hugely scalable copyright infringement detection system.
- Allowed redeployment of content analysts, resulting in higher morale due to more rewarding work.
- Reduced average detection time to minutes/hours rather than days (representing potential cost savings for copyright owners).
- Enabled successful prosecution of serial copyright infringing websites.