Campaign: A campaign is where all the details relating to one project can be found. This is where you can view illegal links MUSO has scanned and issue takedowns for them.
Products: A product is the type of campaign you’re running, for example a Book, an Album or a Film, depending on your Media Type.
Media Type: This is the general category of the content you want to protect. You can choose from Music, Film, Software or Publishing.
Removal: A removal is what happens when MUSO issues a DMCA Takedown Notice to the website or host of infringing content and that content is subsequently eliminated from the site. The content can be a piracy file, a Google search result or a spoof site (see definition below).
DMCA: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Many infringing sites have accepted this as a standard takedown procedure.
Source Page: This is the specific page(s) where we have found the files that appear in your campaign.
File Tab: This is where we will list all of the live cyberlocker, torrent, streaming and blog links we’ve found that are offering your content illegally.
Google Tab: This is where we add links that we have found in Google search results. Sending takedowns for links in this tab will remove them from Google search listings.
Cyberlocker: A cyberlocker is a third-party online service that provides file-storing and file-sharing services for various types of media files and data.
Torrent: A torrent is a file type used by BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. It allows users to share and download files using specific programmes such as BitTorrent and UTorrent.
Spoof Site: A "fake" site which offers content to consumers, usually requiring a subscription, membership or survey, but which does not actually have downloadable content available on the site.
Non Compliant Site: Any site which hosts/provides illegal content but does not remove files or respond to takedown notices.
Crawling / Harvesting for Links: The process of searching the internet to identify and extract infringing links into your campaign.