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Social media piracy is rampant. getty As the world of media and entertainment consumption gravitates more and more towards digital channels, it often seems hopeless to be thinking about winning the war against piracy. Piracy sites pop up all the time and to top it off, social media is now a preferred source of piracy content. It makes sense. After all, content consumption is social in nature. We crave entertainment not solely for its enjoyment, but because we love to socialize about it. FOMO (fear-of-missing-out) compels us to be on top of the latest and greatest movie, news, or sports event. Therefore, naturally, it was only a matter of time before piracy would shift significantly to social media sites. How serious is the problem? How can AI help solve it? Let’s explore these two questions. The Magnitude of the Problem I have been tracking the social media piracy problem for a few years now, and most recently in a research project with Mike Smith from Carnegie Mellon and Yixin Lu from George Washington University, in partnership with VFT Solutions, which has shared data on social media piracy for numerous entertainment and sports events. In a nutshell, piracy in social media is quite pervasive. As an example, VFT Solutions monitored the Fury vs. Ngannou professional cross-over heavyweight boxing match, recording more than 21 million views on a sample of live piracy streams across social media platforms and web-based piracy sites that have live chat functions to communicate with viewers. That’s a bigger blow for viewership and revenues than any one that the boxers received inside the ring. Wayne Lonstein, co-founder and CEO of VFT, states: “We estimate that about 40-60% of social piracy views are unique, depending on whether the streams are being taken down or not.” Millions of views were…

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