Watermarking is an essential part of any anti-piracy program. More now than ever, as pirates have started to remove the broadcaster’s logo from the stream. But with a unique robu... More
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A Game-Changing Watermark for Live Sports (Irdeto Perspective)
IBC Reflections: Irdeto’s Lucas Catranis on Protecting Sports Media From Piracy (SVG)
Security is one of the hottest topics on the mind of every sports-media organization these days. Incidents from ransomware extortion schemes like the leaking of HBO’s Game of Thr... More
Irdeto Looks to Make Premium Content Delivery Easier, Faster for Pay TV Operators (Videonet)
At security specialist Irdeto’s IBC stand this year, the demonstrations were all about how to make it easier – and quicker – for pay-TV operators to roll out premium content ... More
A Million Piracy-Enabled Kodi Boxes Sold in U.K. Show Pirates Not Yet Sunk (TechRadar)
Kodi is a fantastic piece of open-source software for streaming content that you own onto a TV, but its versatility has lead to a huge market for people to modify it to stream cont... More
‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7 Pirated More Than 1 Billion Times (Variety)
The seventh season of “Game of Thrones” has been illegally downloaded or streamed more than 1 billion times. According to a report from anti-piracy firm MUSO, the seven episod... More
Is Blockchain an Accelerator of Piracy? (Irdeto Perspective)
What’s the attraction for pirates? Firstly, it’s the anonymity (or technically pseudonymity). Transactions rely on public and private encryption keys. Although the transactions... More
Content Protection Summit Speakers: M&E Security Remains a Moving Target
NEW YORK — Movie studios, TV networks and other content owners must continue to evolve in their efforts to combat piracy, cybercrime and other security challenges, according to e... More
X-Files and Videotape: The Early Days of Internet Piracy (CNET)
Today, content flows so freely and easily within moments of broadcast at the speed of light, delivered in torrential clusters that separate what you get from any real person who ha... More
Fortium, HGST at CPS: Selecting a Security Solution is Crucial Amid Piracy, Hacking Proliferation
Securing media and entertainment companies’ content — whether it’s a new movie or any of a company’s confidential stored data — remains important, but challenging, as pir... More
Kudelski Group Scores Major Piracy Win
Kudelski Group, owners of forensic watermarking technology NexGuard, made a major anti-piracy announcement at IBC: a U.S. District Court has ordered China’s Zhuhai Gotech Intelli... More