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Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers

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Damilola Ibosiola,Benjamin Steer,Alvaro Garcia-Recuero,Gianluca Stringhini,Steve Uhlig,Gareth Tyson

Queen Mary University of London,Queen Mary University of London,Queen Mary University of London,University College London,Queen Mary University of London,Queen Mary University of London


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Online video piracy (OVP) is a contentious topic, with strong proponents on both sides of the argument. Recently, a number of illegal websites, called streaming cyberlockers, have begun to dominate OVP. These websites specialise in distributing pirated content, underpinned by third party indexing services offering easy-to-access directories of content. This paper performs the first exploration of this new ecosystem. It characterises the content, as well the streaming cyberlockers' individual attributes. We find a remarkably centralised system with just a few networks, countries and cyberlockers underpinning most provisioning. We also investigate the actions of copyright enforcers. We find they tend to target small subsets of the ecosystem, although they appear quite successful. 84% of copyright notices see content removed.

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10.1609/icwsm.v12i1.15008


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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2018): Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media