Research services
You know it's being stolen.
You don't know where.
Filing takedowns on the copies you happened to find is drinking from a firehose with a teaspoon. Research maps the full footprint first, sites, mirrors, and the networks between them, with evidence captured and hashed per finding. Then your enforcement budget spends on targets that exist.
Quoted per engagement, fixed price before work starts. Most complete within a week.
What research covers
Three engagements, one discipline
Infringement mapping
The complete report of where your content appears: sites, platforms, mirrors, and the networks connecting them. Every finding carries captured, hashed evidence, not just a URL list.
Case construction
For large-scale piracy: every infringing URL documented across every site, organized so your notices, or your attorney's filing, are complete the first time. The difference between a sweep and a paper trail.
Ongoing investigation
Repeat offenders resurface under new domains. Continuous research keeps the map current on a weekly or daily cadence, feeding straight into monitoring and included takedowns.
The method
How an engagement runs
- 1
You tell us what you own
Links to your originals, catalogs, or brand assets, plus anything you already know is stolen. Scope gets agreed in writing before anything is billed.
- 2
We map the footprinthashed evidence
Search-driven discovery, certificate logs, platform sweeps, and known pirate networks, with per-finding evidence capture and hashing.
- 3
You get the report
Every URL grouped by site and network, with confidence scoring, ready to feed into takedowns, monitoring, or a counsel handoff.
What the report contains
- Every infringing URL, grouped by site
- Hosting and registrar identification per target
- SHA-256 hashed evidence with capture timestamps
- Confidence scoring per finding
- Case-ready grouping for takedowns or counsel
Prefer to find copies yourself first? The Copy Scanner and Website Detective are free, and the host-lookup guide teaches the manual method.
Research FAQ
Before you commission a map
Already know exactly what's out there? Start the takedown directly.
Methodology
Who commissions research, and what lands on their desk
Who this is for
Full proliferation mapping before enforcement spend: where the work lives, on which networks, at what volume.
The investigative groundwork, hosts, registrars, networks, delivered as organized exhibits, not raw screenshots.
Competitive scraping and mirror-network mapping; evidence packaged for takedowns or escalation.
Counterfeit channel mapping across marketplaces and standalone shops, with the domain-watch running behind it.
What a report contains
Every identified copy of the work, grouped by hosting network, the enforcement target list.
How much of the work is out there, on what kinds of properties, growing or shrinking.
Host, registrar, network and CMS for each target, the delivery routes a takedown will travel.
Hashed, timestamped captures taken at detection; the record that survives after pages change or vanish.
Enforce against the whole problem, not the visible slice.
Tell us the scope; a fixed-price map comes back before any work begins.