Anti-piracy operations are the continuous, partly human process of protecting content after it has shipped: monitoring the internet for illegal streams and downloads, identifying the source (often via forensic watermarks), and acting to shut it down. DRM prevents casual copying; anti-piracy deals with the leaks that happen anyway.
It is especially critical for live premium content - sports in particular - where pirate restreams must be found and killed within minutes to protect the value of the event. Typical components include automated scanning, watermark extraction, takedown workflows, and legal escalation, run as an ongoing operation rather than a one-time setup.
