Research from digital experience protection and delivery specialist Akamai Technologies, Pirates in the Outfield, a collaboration between Akamai and anti-piracy, market analytics and audience connection solutions provider MUSO, illustrates how online piracy continues to be prevalent across, and financially detrimental to, a variety of industries. Between January and September 2021, global piracy demand — measured […]
An investigation launched by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office has dismantled a digital piracy operation known as ‘CyberGroup’ that provided illegal IPTV services to over 500,000 users. Italy’s Guardia di Finanza carried out searches at homes of 20 people suspected of violating copyright law in Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Campania and Calabria. The investigation established that […]
Irdeto, a specialist in digital platform cybersecurity, has announced the launch of Irdeto Server Side Ad Insertion (SSAI). This new solution maximizes addressable live ad inventory of OTT video at scale while delivering a seamless ‘TV-like’ viewing experience. It integrates with any ad server or an existing CSAI solution to deliver targeted and personalized ads […]
Synamedia’s CTO, Nick Thexton, and Simon Brydon, Synamedia’s Senior Director, Security Business Development – Sports, have shared their industry thoughts on the year ahead. Their 2022 predictions include: Rethinking recommendations In the seminal Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy we found an answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. However, fans will recall that the enigmatic […]
Fans of American Football who may be tempted to watch the coming weekend’s NFL Playoff games – exclusive to Sky Sports in the UK – through illegal means, rather than via the proper channels, are being warned of the risk that they are taking when watching illegal streams, and that they are exposing themselves and […]
Popcorn Time, a once popular piracy app that allowed users to illegally stream TV shows and movies, has shut down. The service originally launched in 2014 and was quickly abandoned by its developers – but since the project was open source, other developers were able to pick up the reins and keep it going, although […]
Born out of a merger between TV regulatory body the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) and online anti-piracy authority Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet (Hadopi), the new French media regulator Arcom came into being on January 1st. The new watchdog is overseen by Roch-Olivier Maistre, former […]
WandaVision is the most-pirated TV show released in 2021 on torrent sites, according to TorrentFreak. The Marvel series, which starred Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany and Kathryn Hahn and exclusively streamed on Disney+, took the top spot from Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian which topped the chart in 2020. Loki, another Marvel series on Disney+, came […]
Motion Pictures Laboratories (MovieLabs), a technology joint venture of the major Hollywood studios, has published the first version of the Enhanced Content Protection for Production (ECPP), providing a set of best practices for production services vendors, cloud services providers, studios and productions, developed with input from studio security experts and leading technology companies across the […]
Verimatrix, a specialist in powering the connected world with people-centred security, has announced that Texas-based Enseo, a technology services provider in hospitality, has selected Verimatrix anti-piracy tools to protect entertainment content for key customers. Delivered via the new set top boxes, the video services Enseo looked to protect against pirates needed specific watermarking technology to […]