A Europe-wide enforcement effort has traced more than EUR 47 million in cryptocurrency flowing through accounts tied to illegal streaming and digital piracy operations, marking one of the largest financial mapping exercises yet against online IP crime. Europol, supported by the EU Intellectual Property Office and Spain’s National Police, coordinated a five-day operation in mid-November known as the Intellectual Property Crime Cyber-Patrol Week. Investigators gathered in Alicante to track infringement patterns, using advanced open-source intelligence tools to pinpoint sites suspected of facilitating illegal content ... (full story)