Maverickeye
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Maverickeye UG (or Maverickeye) is a copyright enforcement company that is based in Germany. It detects and retraces copyright infringement using software technology.
Etymology
Maverickeye comes from two words: maverick, which means “unorthodox or independent-minded” and eye. Combined, the whole name refers to the company's unconventional way of detecting copyright violators.
Services
Maverickeye provides surveillance of intellectual property within various peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as BitTorrent and eMule. It makes use of hardware infrastructure to identify, analyse, archive, and document the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. Maverickeye generates analytical, statistical, and graphical reports for P2P downloads of Internet users. They also offer takedown services requesting removal of unlicensed content from search engines and torrent sites. This service includes an analysis and trademark and picture infringement detection.
Takedown process
Identify the sites that contain infringed content.
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