· Case Study / Anti Piracy

Vanishing 40K+ pirated streams for a global studio

Major MENA streaming studio · MENA · Global · 12-month engagement

40K+
verified pirated streams removed
<24h
median takedown latency
+19%
opening-week paid signups vs prior slate

When a top MENA streaming studio prepared the simultaneous release of three flagship titles across forty-two territories, their internal anti-piracy team was already losing the early-window battle. Within minutes of each premiere, full-quality re-encodes were appearing on cyberlockers, IPTV bundles, Telegram channels and rogue social-media uploads, draining subscriber acquisition during the most valuable seventy-two-hour window of the entire release cycle. Previous vendors had relied on keyword-based monitoring and shotgun DMCA notices, generating noisy reports but failing to move the needle on actual viewership recovery. ZhenyYET was brought in to rebuild the programme from the ground up. We started by fingerprinting every minute of each title before launch, then deployed our continuous detection grid across the open web, social platforms, Telegram, Discord, P2P networks and dark-web indexes — tuned specifically to the languages, hosts and seller communities that matter in the region. Each detection was triaged by a human analyst within minutes, ranked by reach and verified against the fingerprint, eliminating false positives that had previously eroded platform trust. Takedowns were issued in parallel through native abuse channels, payment-processor escalations and direct relationships with regional ISPs and CDNs, while a separate workstream pursued the operators monetising the streams through advertising and subscription panels. Real-time dashboards gave the studio executives the same operational picture as our analysts: detections per hour, median takedown latency, recovered impressions and a heat-map of the most aggressive distributors. Over the twelve months of the engagement we processed more than forty thousand verified detections, achieved a sustained ninety-eight-point-four percent takedown rate within twenty-four hours, dismantled three coordinated re-upload networks and contributed to the studio recording its highest opening-week subscriber numbers on record for the protected slate. The programme has since been extended to cover the studio's full catalogue and live-event portfolio.

“ZhenyYET became an extension of our content protection team within weeks. Their takedown velocity and intelligence quality are simply on another level.”
— Head of Content Protection · MENA Streaming Studio

· Engagement at a glance

Category
Anti Piracy
Client
Major MENA streaming studio
Region
MENA · Global
Duration
12-month engagement
Headline metric
98.4% takedown rate within 24h
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