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Make no mistake: the ecosystem that is today’s media and entertainment industry is threatened to its core by piracy. The first-of-its-kind all-digital Video Security Summit exposes the full scope and impact of the piracy problem. It brings together the extended family of anti-piracy allies to illuminate piracy and its solutions.

The event explains why piracy detection and anti-piracy are more than just another expense for the business to bear. Detection and prevention are essential to the survival of the business and the community of professionals that are part of it.

Hear about successful piracy strategies and tactics that:

• Help identify and verify piracy
• Catch the criminals behind it
• Shut piracy down
• Influence national anti-piracy policy.

Each day of this two-day event has six segments over three hours, with Oct. 19 focusing on recognizing piracy and going on the offensive against it. Experts will explain the many forms of piracy and why piracy is a moving target in the rapidly changing media and entertainment industry, and attendees will learn about the business and financial impact of piracy.

Executives from Rogers Communications, BBC Studios, beIN Media, and a technical consultant with extensive movie studio experience speak on how they anticipate and respond to piracy.

Attendees will learn how piracy investigations work, with a case study about a pirate service that reached 40 million consumers before it was shut down, and hear how ad-supported piracy impacts brand safety and what can be done about it.

Oct. 20 will zero in on vulnerabilities, setting up defensive barriers against attacks and harnessing the power of the community to fight it. Attendees will learn how network operators can secure their services from origin to the network edge, and see how pirates hack OTT services, where the DRM and token system fail, and how to secure content and thwart hackers. Speaking from his experience of having blocked thousands of geo-pirates, the architect of South Africa’s MultiChoice explains the impact that pirate activity can have on an operator’s ability to serve its subscribers.

Attendees will learn techniques for protecting, detecting, and enforcing security policies from content creation to the viewer experience. AVIA, IBCAP and Nordic Content Protection executives tell us how they catch pirates, shut them down by court order, and influence regulators.

MESA members Friend MTS, Synamedia, BuyDRM and GeoGuard will all take the stage.

CDSA and M+E Daily readers can register for free by entering the promo code EARLYBIRD at checkout.