Anti-Piracy
Clubhouse Chats Streamed to Third‑Party Website (WLS)
The incident raises concerns about the privacy and security of conversations taking place on the platform.... More
Spotify: Streaming Must Stay Affordable to Avoid ‘Pushing’ People to Piracy (YF)
Raising the price of music streaming could risk driving people back towards illegal downloading, MPs were told this week. Most of the main players have resisted increasing prices b... More
Research: 3 in 5 UK Users Unaware of Piracy Dangers (AT)
With lockdowns in place across the UK, the nation has turned to home TV and entertainment tech to keep themselves occupied, with a quarter of people in the UK buying or receiving d... More
SK Broadband Selects NAGRA’s Forensic Watermarking Technology for IPTV Set-Top Boxes
NexGuard Pay-TV enables SK Broadband to protect their premium content investment by identifying content leaks and tracing them back to the set-top box of origin. (more…)... More
Synamedia, Akamai Tackle Pirate Takedowns Together
Independent video software provider Synamedia has its security and watermarking solutions with edge platform specialist Akamai, to better protect streaming OTT content services, th... More
White House: Streaming Piracy Direct Threat to Content Owners
The illegal pirating of streaming videos is a growing threat to content owners and distributors, according to the Trump administration, which has shared its annual Intellectual Pro... More
Premier League Piracy Increases During Lockdown (Forbes)
Two million people in the UK have admitted to illegally streaming a Premier League soccer match in 2020 despite the fact every single match in 2020 despite the fact every single ma... More
Studios Experimenting With Film Release Models – Here’s What That Could Mean for Movie Piracy (CNBC)
2021 will be a very different year for the movie theater business. Studios, hoping to find ways of turning a profit on big budget blockbusters, have turned to new methods for film ... More
Staying in Control in an Increasingly Open World (DTE)
Open application platforms, while attractive to aggregate content apps and deliver choice consumers demand, raise a new set of risks for Pay TV operators due to their open nature.... More
Stream-Ripping is Next Frontier for Piracy Wars (THR)
That YouTube is a great place to access free content is known by most. But is the extremely popular video-sharing website also the place to go to download? That’s a question prov... More
6 Ways Passwords Fail Basic Security Tests (Dark Reading)
New data shows humans still struggle with password creation and management.... More
Go3 Selects GeoGuard’s VPN, Proxy Detection Solution to Protect Their Premium Content From Geo-Piracy
GeoGuard announced that TV3 Group has selected GeoGuard DB, its award-winning and “Hollywood Studio Approved” VPN and proxy detection solution to protect the premium content de... More
Spotify Just Invented AI Technology That Will Police Songwriter Plagiarism (MBW)
Songwriters of global hits getting sued for alleged plagiarism has become a recurrent story these past few years – and a recurrent source of misery for writers and their represen... More
Offense is the Best Defense Against Pirates (NAGRA Blog)
A successful anti-piracy strategy doesn’t rely solely on one tool. It is part of a holistic and bespoke solution that incorporates offensive and defensive tactics to address chal... More
Congress Passes IoT Security Law (Decipher)
Congress has unanimously passed the bipartisan IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, which would set minimum security requirements for developing, patching, and configuring Internet o... More
The Digital Piracy Dilemma (HBR)
In the world of film, one of the most important things copyright owners can do is market their content online to increase awareness and revenue. At the same time, they have to prot... More
How Piracy Helped Grow the Video Games Industry in India (Vice)
By making games affordable and accessible to generations of kids in the country, piracy primed the market, inspired talent, and paved the way for more legitimate businesses.... More
Account Fraud is Killing Streaming Services: What Providers Can Do (Security Intelligence)
The use of online streaming services was already burgeoning well before most of the world started spending so much time at home. The current explosion in the demand for video and m... More
Adobe Brings its Misinformation-Fighting Content Attribution Tool to the Photoshop Beta (TechCrunch)
Adobe’s work on a chain of custody that could link online images back to their origins is inching closer to becoming a reality. The prototype, part of the Content Authenticity In... More
Movie Piracy is on the Rise as Studios Bypass Theatrical Releases (Fortune)
Along with stalling film production, shutting theaters and throwing release schedules into chaos, the coronavirus pandemic has brought still another woe to Hollywood: a rise in mov... More
