24/7 Automatic Piracy Protection for Indie Creators

MUSO provides content protection services for independent content creators including self published authors, musicians and producers. We scan the web for your files and crawl global piracy domains and search engines matching potential piracy files. Using a combination of technology and piracy experts, we verify and send a notice for all infringements.  We also provide dynamic reporting and detailed updates via a centralised dashboard.

It is impossible to eradicate all piracy; non-compliant sites can be unresponsive to DMCA notices and that is beyond the control of a piracy vendor. Secondly, new piracy sites are often created. MUSO can however greatly reduce the effects of piracy and give you peace of mind that our system is working 24/7 to protect your content and mitigate the impacts of these infringements.

Digital piracy creates a significant negative impact on everyone in the distribution chain, including content creators, publishers, retailers, distributors, and consumers. Each year, the creative industries lose hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales to piracy—and with each lost sale, creators lose royalty income. According to the Author’s guild, there is a clear correlation between the decline in author’s income and the growth of digital piracy and as Forbes states, independent musicians are hit hardest by piracy. 

Yes, our crawler scans MUSO's database of piracy sites irrespective of location or region. New domains are being continuously added to this database as new sites are created.

For instances where piracy exists but it has not yet been automatically picked up, all clients can manually report infringing URLs that they might encounter. This feature was specifically designed for this purpose, to give users more control and peace of mind for their content when it comes to sending takedown notices and to cover results that might be missed by our crawlers.

MUSO’s auto-takedown feature is available in every account which, when activated, takes care of automatically sending a DMCA takedown notice for those links which meet a certain criteria, in an effort to ease the pressure on our clients to review all discovered links and to have a quick reaction in addressing them. When the crawler finds results that are an exact match to your product, it will send a take down automatically. For the remaining links which may be considered infringing but not an exact match by our system, you will have to manually verify the links to check if they are infringing in any way and send a takedown for them or ignore them.

The timeline is very much dependent on where we find the content and whether the site is compliant or not. File removal on compliant sites can take anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks, depending on the sites' internal procedures when responding to a DMCA notice. Google links can take up to two weeks to be removed by Google as they receive thousands of removal requests.

MUSO's self managed service for authors scans the piracy landscape exclusively, social media and UGC sites fall outside of this category and therefore cannot be scanned as they are legal platforms. However, if you come across any infringing social media links, you can add them to your campaign and send a takedown after they have been verified by our team. MUSO does offer additional social media scanning across its automated & premium services (for an additional fee).