Verimatrix, a specialist in powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, has announced the launch of its new Verimatrix Streamkeeper solution, a cybersecurity and anti-piracy solution that it describes as a “gamechanger” for the media & entertainment industry. Streamkeeper empowers customers to hunt down and take out OTT pirates who steal content such as […]
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has confirmed the guilty plea of George Bridi, a citizen of the United Kingdom, for his role in the Sparks Group, an international piracy group that illegally distributed movies and television shows on the Internet. Bridi pleaded guilty November 18th before US […]
OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions specilaiist Viaccess-Orca (VO) is joining forces with Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the governing body that runs the major professional football leagues in France, to fight against illegal IPTV networks. Using VO’s Anti-Piracy Center services, LFP will be able to monitor and request effective countermeasures […]
Chinese online entertainment service iQIYI has reiterated its commitment to IP protection through technological innovation. Presenting virtually at the Intellectual Property Protection and Business Environment Optimization forum held as part of 4th China International Import Expo (CIIE), Gong Yu, Founder and CEO of iQIYI, expressed his wish for more regulatory guidance on IP protection. “Piracy […]
In Spain, digital piracy experienced another decline in absolute figures, according to data from 2020, among the findings of the Observatory on Piracy and Digital Content Consumption Habits 2020, prepared by the independent consultancy GfK at the request of IP protection trade body La Coalición de creadores e industrias de contenidos and presented by the […]
Italy’s Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) has busted a pay-TV piracy ring and cited some 1,800 people for pay-TV subscription fraud. They were all sold pirated IPTV subscriptions to pay-TV platforms, including Mediaset Premium, Sky, DAZN and Disney Channel, by a 70-year old man living in Varese. The man, who is under investigation on suspicion […]
Integral Ad Science (IAS) has released its Media Quality Report for H1 2021. The report, based on trillions of data events analysed each month worldwide, provides transparency into the performance and quality of UK digital media and advertising placements in the first half of 2021, alongside worldwide comparisons. The Media Quality Report highlights improvements across […]
Video software provider Synamedia has launched Synamedia OTT ServiceGuard to address streaming piracy, suggesting that for the first time, the media and entertainment industry can systemically address the inherent weaknesses that make it easy for pirates to not only steal content, but also entire OTT services, including redistributing directly from the service provider’s content delivery […]
Charlie Rivkin, Chairman and CEO of The Motion Picture Association (MPA), has declared that piracy is the single greatest threat to the global audiovisual community. In a keynote address at Cine Europe Barcelona, Rivkin saluted the economic power of this sector, and the resiliency it had shown in weathering one of the toughest challenges in […]
A Chinese anti-piracy operation targeting copyright infringement on the Internet has reported major success. Copyright law enforcement departments at various levels have investigated 445 cases involving online copyright infringement, shutting down 245 illegal websites and mobile applications transmitting pirated content, and removing 618,300 web links with such content since the operation was launched in June. […]