Innovating to address streaming abuse — and our latest transparency report

Cloudflare's latest transparency report (H1 2025) highlights its evolving approach to combating streaming abuse and copyright infringement.

• •DMCA reports for hosted services surged from ~11,000 in H2 2024 to ~125,000 in H1 2025 due to closer collaboration with rightsholders via a dedicated reporting API.
• •Cloudflare acted on 54,000 streaming reports (vs. 1,000 in H2 2024) and terminated hosting for 21,000 additional accounts showing abusive behavior.
• •AI and ML tools were deployed to detect phishing campaigns and unauthorized streaming patterns at scale, while bad actors increasingly use AI to evade detection.
• •Rightsholder data is also used to improve technical tools that block unauthorized streaming on non-hosted (CDN/security) services before infringement is even identified.
• •Cloudflare criticized legally-mandated IP blocking (e.g., LaLiga's actions in Spain) as causing severe overblocking and collateral damage to unrelated websites.