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Anti-Piracy Solutions for Media, Sports, and Entertainment

ZeroFox finds pirated content, counterfeit merchandise, fake ticket sites, and impersonated talent, then removes them.

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Anti-Piracy Solutions Start Where the Leak Starts

A screener does not appear on a torrent site first. It moves through private Discord servers, invite-only Telegram channels, and dark web markets while the release window is still closed. Anti-piracy services that only crawl the open web arrive after the damage compounds. ZeroFox monitors the closed communities where leaks originate, confirms what is real, and removes it across torrents, cyberlockers, illegal streaming services, and marketplaces.
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billion in annual revenue lost to video piracy, projected to reach $125 billion by 2028 1

billion visits to unlicensed video sites in 2023, up 12% since 2019 1

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takedowns executed every year at a 95%+ acceptance rate 2

ZeroFox Media, Sports, and Entertainment Protection

Entertainment organizations defend two things at once: a content library, and the people whose names and likenesses carry the brand. The same adversary networks monetize both. ZeroFox covers content, brand, and talent in one continuous loop of discovery, validation, and disruption.

Surface screeners and leaked assets across torrent networks, cyberlockers, dark web markets, and private Discord and Telegram channels before release.
Monitor infringing sites, IPTV services, and piracy forums, with automated DMCA takedown workflows and hosting provider escalation.
Flag bootleg tour merchandise and fraudulent resale sites targeting fans of tours, premieres, and sporting events, with automated delisting requests.
Detect lookalike subscription sites harvesting subscriber logins and payment data at domain registration, before fans are victimized.
Remove fake talent accounts running giveaway schemes, fake meet-and-greet offers, and AI-generated endorsement scams across social platforms.
Remove exposed home addresses and travel patterns from data broker sites, and surface stalker coordination in fan forums and encrypted channels.
Deliver SOC-validated geospatial alerts for threats near red carpet events, award ceremonies, stadium concerts, and talent residences in under two minutes.

Why ZeroFox Leads in Anti-Piracy and Talent Protection

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Content and Talent in One Platform

Piracy, counterfeit merchandise, impersonation, and physical threats to talent are tracked as one adversary network.

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Access to Closed Communities

DarkOps specialists hold authenticated access to invite-only forums, Discord servers, and Telegram channels crawlers never reach.

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Removal at Scale

More than 80 Global Disruption Network partners remove threats at a 95%+ acceptance rate.

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Detection Before Release

Leaks, lookalike domains, and fake ticket sites are flagged as they appear, ahead of a release window or event date.

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Evidence That Supports Enforcement

Timestamped, analyst-validated records support DMCA action, right of publicity claims, and law enforcement referrals.

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Analysts as an Extension of Your Team

A 24/7 security operations center and 200+ intelligence analysts cover the fan communities and piracy networks your team cannot watch alone.

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ZeroFox is head and shoulders above the competition. We have used multiple vendors in the past for our digital risk monitoring and threat intelligence, and ZeroFox by far provides a superior service.

Director of Global Cyber Defense, Global Media Company

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See how ZeroFox finds leaks before a release window closes and removes the fake accounts targeting your talent. Book a walkthrough with our media and entertainment team.

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Frequently asked questions

Anti-piracy software detects and removes unauthorized copies of protected content across the internet. Most tools fall into two groups. The first prevents copying through digital rights management and forensic watermarking, which traces a leak back to its source after it happens. The second detects pirated content in circulation and gets it taken down. ZeroFox sits in the second group and extends it, monitoring the closed communities where leaks surface first and routing confirmed infringement to hosting providers, registrars, and platforms for removal.
Detection works across several source types at once. Open sources include torrent indexes, cyberlockers, illegal streaming and IPTV services, social platforms, and marketplaces. Closed sources include private Discord servers, invite-only Telegram channels, criminal forums, and dark web markets, which is where pre-release material usually appears before it reaches the open web. ZeroFox combines automated detection with DarkOps specialists who hold authenticated access to those closed communities, then validates findings with analysts so confirmed infringement reaches your team and noise does not.
A DMCA takedown service files notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act asking hosts, platforms, and search engines to remove infringing content. Filing a notice is the easy part. The harder problems are finding every copy, refiling as content reappears under new hosts, and keeping records that hold up if enforcement escalates. ZeroFox automates DMCA workflows, escalates to hosting providers and registrars through the Global Disruption Network, and keeps monitoring after removal so the same content does not reappear under a new host.
Pre-release protection depends on how early you see the leak. Watermarking identifies who leaked a screener, but only after distribution has started. Catching it earlier means monitoring the private channels where screeners circulate first, then moving to removal within hours rather than days. ZeroFox monitors those channels continuously, flags leaked assets as they appear, and disrupts distribution through platform and hosting partners, which matters most during the first 72 hours of a release window.
The networks that pirate content often monetize the same intellectual property through counterfeit merchandise, fake ticket sites, and impersonated talent accounts, and the fan communities where piracy circulates are the same ones where stalkers coordinate. ZeroFox covers both sides. On content, that means leak detection, piracy takedowns, and counterfeit delisting. On talent, it means removing exposed home addresses and travel data from broker sites, taking down impersonation accounts, surfacing stalker coordination, and delivering physical threat alerts at premieres, concerts, and residences.
  1. [1] Kearney, Video Content Piracy: Using the Power of Data and Analytics to Capture a Multibillion-Dollar Opportunity.
  2. [2] ZeroFox internal