Premium sports broadcaster beIN is tackling the threat from digital piracy to its pay-TV business head-on, by deploying the live watermarking service from platform, channel and content protection services provider Friend MTS. Friend MTS is providing its live watermarking anti-piracy service ASiD (Advanced Subscriber Identification) to protect all beIN channels on the broadcaster’s OTT platform […]
Phillip Davies, Head of Content Protection and Cybersecurity, Sky, and Mark Mulready, Senior Director Cybersecurity and Anti-Piracy, Irdeto, have been elected to the roles of Vice President of the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) from April 1st. They succeed Michael Barley of Sky and Christine Maury-Panis from Viaccess-Orca who have held the positions since AAPA – […]
An EU-wide survey carried out by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that 97 per cent of all EU citizens believe it is important that inventors, creators and performing artists can protect their rights and be paid for their work. The survey questioned 26,555 people aged 15 and over across the EU-28 about […]
The major US television networks have secured a favourable appeals court victory in a case centring on alleged illegal online retransmission of their programmes. FOX, ABC, NBC, and CBS have argued against OTT service FilmOn X’s retransmission in the courts for close to five years. FilmOn X contended that it was a cable system under […]
An online consumer piracy survey from the digital platform security specialist Irdeto has found that over half of respondents polled in the MENA region – 59 per cent in Egypt and 53 per cent in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – admitted to watching pirated video content. The research also revealed that millennials are among […]
PRS for Music – which represents the rights of over 124,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in the UK – has reported what it describes as impressive results one year on from the launch of its Member Anti-Piracy System (MAPS), which allows music creators to remove their repertoire from unlicensed online services and platforms. Since […]
According to Michael Boreham, Senior Consultant at Futuresource Consulting, SVoD uptake in China is being driven by the younger consumer group, with the market having huge potential for growth driven by the desire for premium content and as the generational shift in consumer behaviour adopts SVoD as the norm. In Boreham’s study – The Cultural […]
On March 8th, an application for a Court Order, that will result in servers streaming unauthorised English Premier League content being blocked, was heard and granted in the English High Court. The Premier League (PL) is currently engaged in a range of activity to protect its IP, and the significant investment made in the competition […]
Research by broadband comparison website Broadband Genie has revealed the majority (72 per cent) of the public believe piracy warning letters sent by UK ISPs are unlikely to have any impact. Under the Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme (VCAP), educational letters are sent to Internet users who are believed to have infringed copyright by sharing material […]
The largest global consumer piracy online survey ever conducted has found that consumer education could reduce the number of individuals who watch pirated video content. The Irdeto Global Consumer Piracy Survey of more than 25,000 adults across 30 countries found that despite the high number of consumers around the globe watching pirated video content (52 […]