Contract engineering
PIP — media piracy monitor
A statistical aggregator for pirate-site tracking: automated traffic collection, screenshots, ad-network detection, Roskomnadzor blocking checks and WHOIS data.
Context
Media rights-holders were losing revenue to unlicensed distribution but had no unified tool to keep track: the scale of infringements, traffic trends on pirate sites, or which ad networks were monetising them.
Problem
A platform that automatically collects statistics across all known pirate sites and gives rights-holders a current, consolidated view in a single interface.
Architecture
PIP (Pirate Info Parser) is a crawler-based system with daily passes across a maintained database of pirate resources: traffic collection from Alexa / EasyCounter / SimilarWeb, screenshot capture, banner and ad-network detection, blocking-registry checks (Roskomnadzor), DMCA-complaint monitoring via Google Copyright Removal, and full domain history (WHOIS, registrar, registration date, regional traffic breakdown).
Integrations
Alexa, EasyCounter, SimilarWeb (traffic and audience); Roskomnadzor blocking registry; Google DMCA Transparency Report; WHOIS.
Results
Rights-holders receive a daily snapshot for every infringing site in the database; the change history supports trend analysis and underpins formal complaints. Fully automated — no manual monitoring required.
team
timeline
~3–4 months to MVP; then ongoing maintenance and expansion of the monitored site database.