Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company, has announced a partnership with the English Football League (EFL) to help detect, disrupt and deter live sports piracy across all matches of the 2025/6 football season. The partnership will utilise the live piracy monitoring and enforcement capabilities of the Nagra Streaming Security solution. Fighting live sports piracy is a […]

Friend MTS, the anti-piracy provider and video cybersecurity partner in entertainment, media and sports, has announced a partnership with Jasmine International Public Company Limited (JAS TV) to safeguard live sports across Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. This collaboration brings together Friend MTS’s advanced anti-piracy solutions including forensic watermarking and global monitoring services to protect English Premier […]

People streaming movies, TV shows and sporting fixtures illegally over the festive period could be unknowingly gifting fraudsters access to their personal finances, warns a cyber security expert. The alert comes following new BeStreamWise research, a cross-industry initiative which aims to raise awareness of the dangers of illegal streaming. The research reveals that 38 per […]

Euroleague Basketball has announced a collaboration with the anti-piracy affiliate of Sportian to protect its competitions against piracy and boost the integrity of its international broadcast offering. Using Piracy Guard services, Euroleague Basketball will be able to automatically detect, report and remove illegal broadcasts across IPTV, web and mobile app platforms. By collaborating with Sportian, […]

Over the last ten years, French thematic channels have lost some €800 million in distribution revenues, which decreased from a total of €2.55 billion in 2014 to €1.76 billion in 2023. Over the same period, their ad revenues fell by 40 per cent, according to trade body ACCES. In 2025, 400 jobs were lost and eight thematic […]

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the antipiracy coalition, and DAZN, the sports streaming platform, have announced that the operator of Photocall – a website with pirated content hosted from Spain that retransmitted live channels – has agreed to shutter the illicit operation. Following an investigation conducted by ACE and DAZN, the operator of […]

As cryptocurrency emerges as one of the payment methods for illicit IPTV and streaming services, the audiovisual and crypto industries have united with law enforcement to strike back. A week-long international operation brought together major industry players to identify and disrupt criminal networks using digital currencies to fund piracy and launder proceeds from illegal streaming. […]

Following the announcement of its recent partnership with the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), European football’s governing body UEFA has joined two additional organisations in order to further enhance its content protection programme. In becoming a member of the Coalition Against Piracy (CAP), the anti-piracy division of the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA), UEFA […]

Police in Lenasia, Johannesburg, have confiscated hundreds of illegal streaming devices valued at some R546,000 (€25,600). The seizure included Android TV boxes that were preloaded with pirated content from MultiChoice and other streaming services, as well as remotes, cables, USB sticks, a laptop, and a cellphone. The raid was carried out by the Hawks, a […]

Tivùsat, the free Italian satellite TV platform co-owned by Rai, Mediaset, and TIM, will gradually phase out its Tiger encryption technology in favour of the more advanced Merlin system. This shift – initiated by Nagravision, the developer of both technologies – aims to bolster security, elevate broadcast quality and introduce new services for Tivùsat users. […]