This might come as a surprise to some of our readers, but through our new Business Intelligence platform, our R&D team has been witnessing a significant trend – the rapid and ongoing decline of book piracy on P2P file sharing sites.

As the industry leader in protecting the rights of content creators on the web, we are always looking for new ways to help our customers be proactive in addressing online piracy. Our goal is to push the envelope continually to find more effective ways for our customers to realize the full value of their content. As more and more content becomes available online, the issue of content infringement is ever more pressing. In order to address the needs of book publishers in a more comprehensive way, we have introduced three new services which we think provide unique opportunities to move the industry forward. These services are Guardian Portal, Guardian Forensics and Guardian New Release.

We applaud Google’s recent initiatives to protect rights holders’ original content on the web because they support Attributor’s vision: to help make the Internet a community that encourages the sharing of content, while enabling content owners to receive fair value for their work. Google’s latest enhancements help Attributor, our clients, and the community at large protect the value of original content.  As Kent Walker highlighted, new services and technology make it easy for us to view or download information that was not previously accessible. We are excited by the richness of information and we understand that people are eager to share it with our community.

Attributor has long advocated education and research about online syndication opportunities that are emerging for publishers worldwide. In January 2010, Attributor conducted its first book piracy study that quantified book piracy, including the number of downloads taking place, and the lost value from book piracy in the U.S. which was estimated at $2.8 billion when the study was published in January.

Dejan Diklic is the CTO at Attributor. He plays an integral role in the strategy, development and implementation of Attributor’s research, which has brought international attention to the depth of content piracy across the Internet.

Since introducing FairShare more than a year ago, we’ve added a number of blogs and articles to our system. With a large and active following of publishers using FairShare to discover who’s using their content and where it’s being syndicated online, we now manage more then four million articles for FairShare users. In fact, we are finding an average of 17 copies of each article being syndicated across the Web.

Today, Dejan Diklic, chief crawling architect at Attributor, contributes his second post about online gaming piracy. Dejan manages the text, image and video crawling team and is responsible for the company’s crawling architecture, algorithms and operations.

Today’s post comes from Dejan Diklic, chief crawling architect at Attributor. Dejan manages the text, image and video crawling team and is responsible for the company’s crawling architecture, algorithms and operations. He plays an integral role in the strategy, development and implementation of Attributor’s research, which has brought international attention to the depth of content piracy across the Internet.

Today, we are thrilled to announce our latest round of funding from previous investors Sigma Partners, JAFCO Ventures and Selby Venture Partners. The $3.2 million in financing will help us deepen our leadership in the industry and advance our technology so that we can support even more publishers around the world.

More than a year has passed since our last Ad Server Share report, so we thought it was time to reexamine the prominence of various ad servers in the market. Attributor analyzed those that monetize content across 270 million domains, which is nearly 75% more domains and pages covered than in previous studies, including a major uptick in international sites. With expanded domain tracking capabilities, we feel this is our most comprehensive ad server report yet. The result is that more ad networks were detected with higher precision.