The irony of the whole anti-piracy business is that while executives love to wax lyrical about the inherent need for cross-industry collaboration and greater education, they can rarely reveal anything other than superficial details of when such alliances have successfully toppled pirate syndicates. This is why Faultline jumps at announcements like one hot off the press from Irdeto. The Dutch anti-piracy vendor has just revealed the fruits of tie-up in the murky world of cryptocurrency, where a week-long international operation identified and disrupted criminal networks which were using digital currencies to fund piracy and launder proceeds made from illegal streaming. The operation mapped $55 million in traced cryptocurrency across 69 sites, while “disrupting” 25 illegal IPTV services, which generally means…