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Piracy

Irdeto: Cutting out content sharing in real time

Content sharing has become the most popular form of piracy. Lucas Catranis, Cyber Services & Investigation, explains how a mixture of technology, human intelligence and industry relationships means they can take down pirate streams even as they play out live events. [bitsontherun fCsc0CpL-hLYU43gg]

October 24, 2016

Cisco pushes Streaming Piracy Prevention

Amit Wohl, Video Security Product Manager in the Service Provider organisation at Cisco, has suggested the company is pioneering a new approach to piracy prevention, with its Streaming Piracy Prevention service utilising technology to locate illegal redistribution of content on the open Internet and closed pirate networks. In a Cisco blog post, Wohl notes that […]

October 24, 2016By Colin Mann

Irdeto: The security opportunity of UHD

Bruce Curtin, Technical Solution Manager, manager talks about the security challenge and also the security opportunity presented by the step change to 4K UHD and the new demands on operators from content providers. [bitsontherun wqZontYI-hLYU43gg]

October 24, 2016

Sky Sports audience down 19%

Viewing figures for Sky Sports’ live Premier League matches have dropped by 19 per cent this season. Despite already having aired headline clashes such as the Manchester derby, Arsenal vs Liverpool and Chelsea vs Liverpool this season, Sky Sports has seen viewers drop by nearly a fifth on last season. The rise of illegal streaming […]

October 17, 2016By Nik Roseveare

anime hit by 7.7bn pirate visits

With Japan the Country of Honour at this year’s MIPCOM, anime, the country’s flagpole format, once again becomes a major acquisition focus for the film and television market across three days in the Palais de Festivals. In this special report for the market, content protection, data-analytics and piracy audience reconnection solutions provider MUSO is reporting […]

October 17, 2016Colin Mann @ MIPCOM

The Rock backs Industry Trust for IP Awareness

Pro-copyright consumer education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness and The Walt Disney Company have launched a collaboration on the animated feature film, Moana, in the latest instalment in the ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ campaign. The 35” trailer, will run across cinema screens nationwide and features Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson – who voices Maui […]

October 14, 2016By Colin Mann

MPAA identifies most notorious pirate markets

The MPAA has formally submitted comments to the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) identifying some of the world’s most notorious markets for the distribution of infringing film and television content. According to Anissa Brennan, Senior Vice President, International Affairs and Trade Policy, the filing is a sobering reminder of the scope and scale […]

October 11, 2016By Colin Mann

220,000 Portuguese homes watch pirate pay-TV

An estimated 220,000 households in Portugal watch pay-TV illegally, an increase of 20,000 compared to 2014, according to figures obtained by local newspapers. The economic crisis is the main reason for the growth in illegal access, as the price of pay-TV packages in general, dropped in the same period. Consumers pay around €10 to receive […]

October 5, 2016From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Premier League broadcast pirates hit with £1m fine

Two fraudsters who supplied illegal broadcasts of Premier League football to commercial premises have been ordered by the court to pay close to £1 million (€1.14m) – which will go back into the ‘public purse’. The individuals behind the company Digicams, Simon Hopkins and Leon Passlow, were found guilty of supplying a variety of systems […]

October 4, 2016By Colin Mann

Movie pirate hit with $1.12m fine

A California man has sentenced by a US Federal Court for criminal copyright infringement for illegally posting screener versions of two movies –  The Revenant and The Peanuts Movie – to a publicly accessible website. As a result of the illegal upload, The Revenant was available for download six days before its limited release in […]

October 3, 2016By Colin Mann