Anti-Piracy

 

Integrating IoT With Blockchain: A Trust and Security Game Changer (IA)

In business today, gathering data and exploiting it is the name of the game. Data should be driving decisions and digital transformation. But, how can organisations tap into the in... More

‘Game of Thrones’ Visibly Boosted Global Piracy Traffic (Torrent Freak)

Game of Thrones came to an end in 2019. The popular HBO TV series has made thousands of headlines over the years, not least because it was massively popular among pirates. New data... More

The Pirates Strike Back (500ish Words)

With so many video streaming services now, we need a unifier.... More

One in Four U.S. Households Engage in Piracy, Costing Billions in Lost Revenue (Digital TV Europe)

Over a quarter of US broadband households engage in content piracy or account sharing, a new study has revealed. The report from Parks Associates also found that pay-TV and OTT pir... More

Three Major Tech Trends Surrounding VFX Adoption, Growth (AWN)

The rise in cloud services adoption for content creation over the past few years has aligned with the explosive growth of high-quality scripted media production. Additionally, thes... More

Is It Time to Eliminate Passwords? (Tech HQ)

Forget inadequate defences or lack of investment in AI-driven cybersecurity, the majority of attacks stem from lost credentials. As businesses employ an evermore-thick stack of dig... More

YouTube Making it Much Easier for Creators to Deal With Copyright Claims (The Verge)

YouTube is updating the way it handles manual copyright claims with changes that should make them much less of a headache for video creators.... More

Piracy is Back (New York Magazine)

Piracy declined because the legal options for consuming media became easier than the illegal options. Now the legal options for media consumption are once again becoming overly bur... More

Study: Dramatic Increase in U.S. Digital Video Piracy (Advanced Television)

The US Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center has published a study detailing the economic impact digital video piracy has on the US economy. While the proliferation o... More

Pirates Snacking on Your Booty? Get Brand Control (Adobe Blog)

Your first line of defense for your brand is a visible watermark on your media, typically a semi-transparent image or text. Watermarks protect your brand by making ownership of an ... More

Fake Streams Could Be Costing Artists $300M a Year (Rolling Stone)

As streaming platforms grow, indie labels are becoming increasingly concerned about how the numbers can be manipulated.... More

Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Could be a New Opportunity for Scammers to Trick You (CNBC)

Facebook’s long-awaited cryptocurrency launch promises to directly impact how people send money around the world, and may allow them to do it more securely using a distributed le... More

Radiohead and the Fine Art of Crisis Management (Sydney Morning Herald)

Radiohead beat the hackers at their own game, essentially, making the material — sonic sketches and works in progress from their trailblazing 1997 album, OK Computer — availabl... More

Radiohead Dropped 18 Hours of Unreleased Music to Screw Pirates (Wired)

On Tuesday, Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood made an announcement on Twitter and Facebook: The band had been "hacked," and the perpetrator attempted a $150,000 shak... More

HITS Spring: Benefits of TPN Touted by Richey May Technology Solutions, New Wave Entertainment

The many benefits of the Trusted Partner Network (TPN) industrywide content security initiative were highlighted May 23 by Richey May Technology Solutions, New Wave Entertainment a... More

Phishing, Social Engineering Still Biggest Risks for Financial Services (Richey May Technology Solutions Blog)

Over the past several years, cybersecurity has become an increasingly important issue facing financial services companies of all shapes and sizes. Bad actors are focused on using s... More

NAGRA: Game of Thrones Piracy Meant Spoiler Fest (Advanced Television)

Notoriously known as one of the most pirated shows in history, Game of Thrones is just one example of the impact illicit streaming can have. It begs the questions – what is the r... More

Is Piracy Impacting Blockbuster Content Success? (NAGRA Blog)

The high piracy figures for blockbusters now clearly show that studios fully operate in what is now a globally connected consumer market, where Internet infrastructure can be massi... More

This App is Why You’ve Never Seen a Leaked Game of Thrones Script (Fast Company)

The app is Scenechronize, a project-management app and platform developed explicitly for the TV and film production business. Launched in 2007, the platform has gone through a few ... More

Long Live the Password – Even if You Don’t Want It to (Security Intelligence)

The problem with passwords is they do not scale. An individual could have hundreds of passwords while privileged users could have upward of thousands of passwords. Without a system... More

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