The rise of Cyberlockers- how online piracy is fighting back.
The rise of Cyberlockers- how online piracy is fighting back |
Computing.
We observed Cyberlockers use many techniques to fly under the radar of these enforcers.
A total of 55% of Cyberlockers saw growth during our measurement period,
while 45% saw a decline.
There has recently been significant growth in their use,
with 10% of infringers using Cyberlockers in 2017, up from 4% in 2016.
Because of this, we wanted to understand how the Cyberlockers used by pirates operate, and shed light on this murky domain.
We built software to monitor the videos uploaded onto popular Cyberlockers, as well as“indexing websites”,
which maintain a directory of links to reliable sources of videos on Cyberlockers.
A total of 58% of all videos that we monitored were held by just two major hosting providers, although
from the outside they appeared to be dispersed across 15 apparently independent Cyberlockers.