Anti-Piracy Program — Q1 2026

The anti-piracy program closed Q1 2026 with 2.84M pirated installs detected — an 18.4% increase over Q4, driven primarily by expanded telemetry coverage in DarkRoom and the rollout of the new license-server fingerprinting in PhotoForge. 31,420 pirate users converted to paid customers (+8.7%), recovering an estimated $24.6M in revenue against a $20M target (+23%).

PhotoForge remained the most-pirated product (35% of all detections, ~$9.75M recovered), followed by VideoForge and DarkRoom. The Pirate → Trial step is the largest leak in the funnel — only 20.9% of warned users engage with the trial offer. Q2 will A/B-test a discount-anchored variant of the soft-warning modal, expected to lift engagement to ~28%.

Geographically, China, Russia, Brazil, and India accounted for ~38% of detections but the conversion rate is highest in NA and OCE (28% / 26%) — a reminder that detection ≠ recoverable revenue. The plan for Q2 routes more soft-warning surface area to NA/EMEA/OCE users while continuing aggressive takedown work in APAC and EMEA distribution channels.

On the takedown side, 88% of issued notices closed within the 7-day SLA (vs 80% target). The escalations queue (3 pending past SLA) is dominated by warez forums hosted in jurisdictions with weak DMCA reciprocity. Active release groups KORG, NULLED, and R2R remain the highest-volume adversaries; ZeroFox and Ghostware appear dormant this cycle. Counter-intelligence on the new release group PatchPanda is in progress and reported separately.