US Patent 11176452 Method and system for piracy detection

In one embodiment, a system, apparatus and a method is described, the system, apparatus and a method including, a storage device and a memory operative to store target content items, a comparator operative to compare one content item of the target content items with the other target content items, and, at least on the basis of comparing the one content item of the target content items with the other content items of the target content items, to develop a correlation graph between each one content item of the target content items and the other content items of the target content items, and a machine learning system operative to receive the correlation graph and to output a decision, on the basis of in the correlation graph, indicating if the content items represented in the correlation graph are pirated content items or not. Related system, apparatuses and methods are also described.