Anti-Piracy
Spotify Confirms It’s Working With Labels to Quell Copyright Threat From AI Music (MBW)
Spotify is taking concerns about the impact of AI-generated music on entertainment rightsholders seriously.... More
Piracy Could Result in $113B Loss for Streaming Services by 2027 (Variety)
Piracy is projected to expand to new heights in one of the most popular forms of entertainment consumption — streaming services. By 2027, there is a projected loss of $113 billio... More
Top 15 Threats to Video Content Distribution (Verimatrix Blog)
One of the most widely recognised threats in the media and entertainment industry is the theft of content and services for illegal video content distribution online.... More
Piracy Challenge Provides an Opportunity That Pays Off (Synamedia Blog)
As pirates have continued to grow and multiply, they are increasingly costing the industry billions of dollars in lost revenues. We recognised the need to analyse this growing indu... More
NAB 2023: Verimatrix to Highlight Escalating Need for Comprehensive Video Protection and Anti-Piracy Approach
Verimatrix will showcase its award-winning and studio-grade Streamkeeper super bundle of digital rights management (Multi-DRM), Counterspy, Watermarking and other content cybersecu... More
Three Types of Piracy That Will Impact Your Revenue and Damage your Brand (Friend MTS Blog)
Economic conditions aside, the sheer scale of content theft is causing the content owners and providers to sit up and take notice. It has indeed reached epic proportions. The ease ... More
Disney, Major Studios Get $30M From Illegal Streaming Sites Amid Piracy Crackdown (THR)
Studios and production companies have aggressively been enforcing their copyrights to combat piracy.... More
One in Ten U.S. Adults Pirated TV, Movies or Live Sports in 2022 (Variety)
Content piracy is rife in the U.S. Approximately 23 million U.S. adults (11%) pirated content in the last year, according to an exclusive survey fielded last month for VIP+ by YouG... More
Fighting Piracy in the Streaming Era (TV Tech)
The streaming service market is vitally important to the global and U.S. economies. According to the annual Motion Picture Association (MPA), the digital content streaming marketpl... More
Global Content Piracy Soared 18% in 2022 (Variety)
After dipping during the great COVID lockdown, media piracy has come roaring back. The proliferation of popular streaming TV content and the return of robust wide-release film slat... More
The Most Pirated Film Titles of 2022 (Variety)
Tom Cruise may have ruled the box office in 2022, but Maverick was no match for the superheroes when it came to illicit film viewing last year.Exclusive data provided to Variety In... More
No Laughing Matter: Synamedia Finds Comedy Is Most Pirated Genre
Synamedia unveiled research analysing the impact of sports and entertainment piracy across seven countries and the potential revenues that would result from converting pirate viewe... More
Rock Concerts, Blind Spots and a Widening Attack Surface (Verimatrix Blog)
Every day, we’re moving away from isolated data, communication, and processes and into a connected world where everything is intertwined. And with this connectivity comes great o... More
NAGRA, Broadcaster Coalition Celebrate Anti-Piracy Win
The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) anti-piracy lab, in coordination with content protection firm NAGRA, are celebrating a win in a federal district cour... More
Online Piracy Still Plagues Music Industry, But Worse For Film, TV (Billboard)
Digital music piracy still plagues global music creators, with criminals employing new tactics like “bulletproof” internet service providers, but it is not as much of a problem... More
Why Is Forensic Watermarking a Lifesaver For the Video Entertainment Industry? (Irdeto Insights)
To put an end to the online video piracy, protective measures need to be taken and a useful one among them is forensic watermarking.... More
AI Content Detection In Practice (Spherex Blog)
Spherex's patented Spherexgreenlight AI/ML content analysis technology provides frame-level cultural feedback to content creators, distributors, and platforms so that titles can be... More
London Police Shut Down Pirate Domains (Advanced Television)
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) at City of London Police and anti-piracy agency Web Capio have seized domains that illegally hosted copyrighted content by YouTu... More
TV Piracy Causes Annual Economic Loss of €1.8B In Germany (BTN)
A total of 5.9 million people regularly watched illegal live TV streams in Germany in 2022, according to the study. In most cases, live TV piracy replaces the use of legal TV servi... More
How Piracy Is Hurting the Anime Industry (GameRant)
Piracy is an ever-present issue in the anime industry. Here's a look at how it's affecting things.... More
