TY  - GEN
AV  - public
KW  - video streaming
KW  -  Cyberlockers
KW  -  Piracy
SP  - 131
T3  - International Conference on Web And Social Media
SN  - 2334-0770
EP  - 140
N2  - 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.
UR  - https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM18/paper/view/17835
A1  - Ibosiola, D
A1  - Steer, B
A1  - Garcia-Recuero, A
A1  - Stringhini, G
A1  - Uhlig, S
A1  - Tyson, G
CY  - Stanford, CA, USA
ID  - discovery10046464
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
PB  - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Y1  - 2018/06/15/
TI  - Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers
ER  -