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Market Insight: Music Piracy in Switzerland

Launched in May 2016, MUSO’s Market Insight Reports are providing the global content industry with never-before-seen granular detail on piracy audience behaviour. Crucially, we’re looking at audience behavior on a country-by-country level for all forms of online piracy,...

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A Culture of Analytics: How Big Data is Shaking Up the Film & TV

How important is Big Data to Netflix and Amazon? Very.

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MUSO’s 2015 Berlinale EFM Piracy Study Reveals New Insights

Throughout 2015, MUSO has charted piracy levels for Berlinale’s Golden Lion and Silver Bear award-nominated films to gain a deeper understanding of the size and trends of piracy audiences in relation to European independent film releases. As Berlinale & EFM 2016 kick off...

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Exclusive Insight: The Australian Piracy Problem

MUSO examines the Australian Piracy Problem and how the market is adapting to quench the public's appetite for legal content.

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eBook Self-Publishers, the new market Game-Changers

MUSO goes down the rabbit hole for a closer look at the online strategies employed by a new wave of self-published authors in growing sales and fighting online piracy.

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Are Music Super-Fans the New Anti-Piracy Heroes?

I have a friend who identifies herself as an All Time Low ‘Hustler.’ She is part of an exclusive club, paying $25 a year for perks including VIP concert access, while attending pizza parties with the band. She’s already spent around $1,300 this year. In the eyes of the...

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Norse Mythology: The Wonders of the DR

The Danes have long mastered the art of spellbinding yarns. Experts in storytelling, this peninsula has always teased the rest of the world with epic stories of murder, forlorn love and unfathomable adventures—you can thank Norse mythology for that. However now, in our...

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The Indian Music Revolution

With India booming into the mobile technology markets, investors are scrambling into the subcontinent to take a share of the soon to be gargantuan market share. In 2014, India was the second largest mobile phone market, with shipments of 275 million units equating to 14% of...

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DMCA Explained

Reading up on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) can be an intimidating task, but it needn’t be. At MUSO, DMCA is the cornerstone of our anti-piracy service, but whilst there are hundreds of in depth articles analysing this United States copyright law, in this...

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MUSO launches VK Anti-Piracy Takedown

Here at MUSO we are always looking for new and innovative ways to track and remove illegal online files in the fastest and most cost effective ways possible. We are excited to be launching the next step in cleaning up online piracy with one of the more popular social media...

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The tale of 150,000 online anti-piracy takedowns

MUSO is used by a number of leading film, music, publishing and software titles to proactively protect their premium content against illegal downloading, and improve the efficiently of online sales. In this analysis, we've taken a look at the last 12‐months activity online...

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Cyberlocker, Torrent, UGC, Grey Market: How do you protect content?

MUSO's ABC of online piracy. MUSO is the world's leading anti-piracy platform for rights holders. Every day we scan over 5m popular sources of illegal content, and over 30m pages in total to provide an efficient, direct and cost-effective content protection platform for...