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Australian IPTV pirate closed

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) – a global coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market for creative content and reducing online piracy – has achieved another significant victory in the effort to protect the legal market for creative content and reduce piracy with the recent closure of Aus Media Streaming, a piracy […]

March 4, 2020By Colin Mann

ABS-CBN sues US IPTV pirates

Flipino entertainment and media company ABS-CBN has filed two civil complaints in US Federal Courts against two individuals in a piracy network spanning across US state lines, seeking damages in the millions for allegedly pirating ABS-CBN’s copyrighted content via illegal IPTV boxes. One lawsuit was filed in the Federal Court, Southern District of Texas against […]

February 28, 2020By Colin Mann

Freeview Play on Android TV devices

UK hybrid TV platform Freeview Play is coming to Android TV, thanks to a new agreement between Freeview and Google. Now, even more British viewers will easily find and discover the shows they love. Android TV users will be able to access over 85 live Freeview channels as well as 20,000 hours’ worth of on […]

February 28, 2020

Globecast: “Infrastructure as Code is cloud gamechanger”

Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, is haling the emergence of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as a gamechanger for the media entertainment industry and has begun deployment of the technology. IaC is the process of creating and managing cloud-based technologies using scripts – hence code – to do so. The script is then “read”, […]

February 25, 2020

Flexible TV packages from BT

UK multiplay telco BT is revamping its TV packages, introducing flexible bundles which will allow users to change the channels they subscribe to every month. The TV platform has also fully integrated NOW TV from Sky into its packages for the first time. It said that the new flexible packages will allow users to upgrade, […]

February 18, 2020By Colin Mann

Vianeos grows TV services for Batelco

Vianeos, a French provider of multi-screen video platforms, has announced the launch of new services for Batelco – the largest telco in Bahrain Vianeos has revamped the Batelco TV (IPTV & OTT) services by creating and developing new User Experience & Interface. The new Batelco TV application is now available on the legacy AOSP Bahrain […]

February 14, 2020

Google Fiber dropping linear TV

Google Fiber, part of the Access division of Alphabet Inc, which provides gigabit fibre broadband Internet and IPTV to a number of locations in the US, will no longer be offering a traditional linear TV product to its new subscribers, saying it is happy to help everyone explore other options to get their favourite programming […]

February 6, 2020By Colin Mann

Successful raid on Bulgarian IPTV pirates

Europol, the law enforcement agency of the European Union, has supported a massive crackdown on illegal IPTV distributors in an operation executed by the Cybercrime Unit of the Bulgarian General Directorate Combating Organised Crime (Главна Дирекция Борба с Организираната Престъпност) of the Ministry of Interior and led by the Bulgarian Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of Cassation. […]

February 6, 2020By Colin Mann

Intertrust, Friend MTS extend streaming piracy fight

DRM technology specialist Intertrust and content protection service provider Friend MTS are extending their partnership agreement that enhances Intertrust’s ExpressPlay content protection platform with Friend MTS anti-piracy and watermarking technology services. Now, an additional layer of protection is introduced that is complementary to the ExpressPlay content security suite, which features ExpressPlay DRM and ExpressPlay XCA. […]

February 6, 2020By Colin Mann

BritBox launches on netgem.tv

Hybrid TV platform netgem.tv is now offering the BritBox SVoD service through its growing network of ISP operators and enabled netgem.tv devices in the market. To mark the deal with BritBox, the service created by the BBC and ITV, netgem.tv is also adding an extra 15 HD channels to its existing line-up, which already features […]

January 28, 2020