About Pirate Reports.com

Pirate Reports provides a personalised service to Intellectual Property owners which includes pre-launch advice to minimise potential losses from piracy and specific targeted action if a problem has arisen where losses or potential losses are identified.

The company ethic is biased toward staff investigation and reporting of abuse as opposed to fully automated reporting as experience has shown that there are less mistakes and better results overall. Many hosts do not have the manpower to administer automated email "floods" and in some countries where co-operation is not guaranteed this approach can merely result in reports being deleted as spam. I even know of one large US network that has taken the same approach to Peer 2 Peer DMCA "floods".

Pirate Reports can minimise your on-line Intellectual Property abuse, and because in the majority of cases you can see the correlation between reporting and later legitimate use showing a return on your investment the question you should be asking yourselves is not "Can I afford to employ Pirate Reports" but more a case of "Can I afford not to".

Senior Investigator

Howard's initial involvement in law enforcement was as a Police Officer in London, England. Seventeen years later he resigned and during the following eleven years his own Private Investigation firm grew to encompass five permanent staff, a host of sub-contractors and a client base that included financial institutions, law firms, Reuters, investigative television, and all of the main UK newspapers.

A career break led to involvement in Property Development and then the offer of employment with Copyright Control Services Ltd, a UK based company targeting a much broader spectrum of piracy mediums than the Trade Associations. Howard's brief was to obtain an in depth knowledge of Internet piracy from established staff and to use his Police contacts and background to create a department to liaise with Law Enforcement Agencies and Trade Associations worldwide to instigate legal action on behalf of clients'.

In the UK Howard suggested, designed, and ran training seminars for Trading Standards Officers in piracy investigation, perpetrator tracing, intellectual property ownership identification, and related evidence gathering and reporting techniques. The acceptance by Trading Standards and Police Forces countrywide of Howard's blueprint for correctly presented evidence caused numerous raids to take place on suspected pirates, many of whom were subsequently prosecuted.

Howard was also asked to consult on a proposed pilot scheme for Trading Standards that would include the preparation of training manuals and the structuring of short residential courses with a view to a countrywide rollout of the strategy. He still maintains contact with many Investigators, individuals from Law Enforcement Agencies, and is known by many of the Trade Associations and major software manufacturers. His innovative use of purpose made software combined with a deep understanding of piracy techniques makes him an authority in the field.

Satellite Offices

The growth of worldwide piracy and Pirate Reports workload has required a more global presence to cater for time differences and language barriers. The current satellite offices in Europe have proven very worthwhile additions to the identification and reporting processes.

Software Development

Pirate Reports software development has been overseen by the same expert since inception and his prior experience and understanding of our goals has been invaluable in ensuring that the software remains of the highest quality written in the latest and most suitable code. Constant reviews and custom made plugins for new clients ensure that the best possible results are available from our investigations of the numerous areas and forms of piracy.