Anti-Piracy

 

GeoComply Zeros In on Streaming Geo-Piracy With Major Updates to GeoGuard DB

GeoComply announced significant updates to GeoGuard DB, its industry-leading VPN and proxy detection solution for the OTT and streaming video market. (more…)... More

Defeating the Pirates (Akamai Blog)

Despite the presence of video piracy since the days of silent movies, the lack of consistent global data points and insight (or definitions) can often confuse the problem, especial... More

What is the ‘Spotify Solution’ for Solving Piracy? (SportsPro)

What Spotify did for music was democratise access to music, remove fragmentation and enhance convenience. People are willing to pay for this. Sport, by contrast, is moving in the w... More

A Peek Behind the Curtains: Who is Watching Pirate Sports Streams? (GeoComply Blog)

So, who’s watching pirate sports streams? The frightening truth is there are a lot of people. In fact, a report from Synamedia in partnership with industry analysts Ampere Analys... More

Synamedia’s Simon Brydon on Digital Piracy Occurring Above, Below the Surface (SVG)

As digital distribution of live sports becomes more of the standard and some events in the state go exclusively digital, protecting one’s content while having comprehensive monit... More

Piracy as a Business: How Movie Thieves Make Billions in a Post-Pandemic World (CPO)

The piracy business model has made significant strides since its inception, evolving from shaky, in-theatre camera shots to crisp, high-quality content stolen straight from the sou... More

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Impact on Video Streaming (The DRM Blog)

As the data shows, piracy has always been a problem for the movie industry, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only worsened it. Downloading streaming content, sharing and selling crede... More

Irdeto’s Control on the Go Brings DRM Protection, Streaming Optimization to Internet-Challenged Spaces

Irdeto partners with Nomad Digital, leader in passenger and fleet connectivity, to provide secure delivery of premium content to its passenger and fleet customers regardless of an ... More

What Does the ‘Protecting Lawful Streaming Act’ Mean for Rights Holders, Service Providers? (IE Blog)

The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act was recently signed into law. What is it, why is it important for the video industry and how can rights holders benefit? Synamedia's Senior Anti... More

Sports Video Operators, Rights Owners Can Tap Into $28B Goldmine With Synamedia Anti-Piracy Solutions

Service providers and rights holders can unlock up to $28.3billion in new revenue each year by reducing sports piracy, according to a new report from Synamedia in partnership with ... More

Why Netflix’s Password Sharing Crackdown Makes Sense in Today’s Streaming World (Forbes)

The hearts of millions of TV-watching young adults likely fluttered just a bit this week when they heard Netflix may start cracking down on password sharing between people who don�... More

Anti-Piracy Efforts are Stepping Up, but is it Enough? (DTE)

Piracy has always been a significant threat to premium content creators and distributors. In the age of streaming and IP-based services, the threat has been globalised and has beco... More

Size Does Not Mean Compromise – Mobile Game Protection is Affordable for All Studios (Irdeto Insights)

Game publishers and developers spend weeks, months and years working on new and exciting mobile games. They invest their time, hard work and creativity into their games. However, a... More

‘Pirates Find the Weak Link and Exploit it’: Akamai’s Anti-Content Theft Action Plan (SportsPro)

Ian Munford, director of industry strategy at Akamai, offers his thoughts on how best to battle sports piracy, as well as offering insight into how the industry can become more sus... More

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

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