Nigeria’s Copyright Commission (NCC) staff say they have destroyed or confiscated several “broadcast devices” used in the illegal distribution of cable television signals in the North and South Bank areas of Makurdi in Benue State. Trade mag CommunicationsWeek reports that the confiscations (estimated with a value of NGN 1.5 million) were conducted during an enforcement […]
Viaccess-Orca, a global player in the protection and enhancement of content services, and ContentArmor, a global provider of watermarking technologies for the media industry, have joined forces to strengthen the protection of UHD premium content. ContentArmor watermark technology has been integrated into the full range of Viaccess-Orca’s Sentinel content protection solutions, including hybrid card/cardless CAS […]
Irdeto, a specialist in digital platform security, has formed a strategic partnership with Samba Tech, the largest independent distributor of online videos in Latin America. The partnership enables the secure delivery of online video content for Latin American operators by combining Irdeto Rights and Samba Tech’s video distribution services. The companies also announced its first […]
A report from Frontier Economics indicates that the global economic value of counterfeiting and piracy could reach $2.3 trillion (€2.15tn) by 2022. The report – Economic Impacts of Counterfeiting and Piracy – provides estimates on the wider social and economic impacts on displaced economic activity, investment, public fiscal losses and criminal enforcement, and concludes that these […]
Findings from an online consumer survey from digital platform security specialist Irdeto suggest that 87 per cent of Russian consumers polled believe that producing or sharing pirated video content is not against the law and 66 per cent think that streaming or downloading pirate content is also legal. This is in stark contrast to the […]
As part of Channel 4’s Fake News Week, the broadcaster commissioned a survey to find out how easily people can distinguish between real and fake news and how concerned they are about disinformation purporting to be fact. When those surveyed where shown six individual news stories,
Premium on-demand video service FandangoNOW has struck a new relationship with HBO Home Entertainment to make HBO content available for purchase via digital download on FandangoNOW. Individual episodes and seasons of HBO content will join FandangoNOW’s collection of 40,000 new release and catalogue movies and TV shows. FandangoNOW is distributed on an install base of […]
French IPTV platform Free is adding two new channel bundles to its service for €2.99 each per month. The first is a Vietnamese bundle of four channels including pubcasters VTV1 (news and documentaries), VTV3 (entertainment), HTV9 (general entertainment) and NetViet/VTC10 (dedicated to ex-pats). The second is Arabic kids bouquet Telekidz that comprises of preschool networks […]
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) has launched its Telugu movie channel, Zee Cinemalu on Dish and Sling TV in the US as a part of the Telugu pack. This launch brings the total tally of ZEE channels in the US to 37, making ZEE the biggest multi-cultural broadcaster in the US. Speaking on the latest […]
Australian streaming service Stan has agreed a content deal with Turner’s Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network is the most popular kids channel in the Asia-Pacific region, and Stan subscribers will now have access to its huge range of series. The partnership between the two entertainment brands will also see the premiere of the eighth and final […]