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UK newspaper ‘reveals’ Netflix VPN ‘fix’

A website associated to popular UK daily tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror has published details of how UK subscribers to Netflix can get ‘more bang for their buck’ by following a series of instructions aimed at fooling Netflix into thinking that the subscriber is in a different country, which makes it automatically make available new […]

March 21, 2016By Colin Mann

British screen entertainment industry shares insights

Leaders from across the UK home entertainment industry gathered in London for the annual Insight Forum, from the newly-rebranded British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). The event – Driving the Video Category Forward – was produced in association with the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Previously known as the British Video Association (BVA), the British Association […]

March 18, 2016By Colin Mann

Arrests made in pirated STB operation

The City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Unit (PIPCU) has been involved in a day of action to disrupt the sale of set-top boxes which have been illegally modified to stream pirated channels which include movies and sports. The co-ordinated operation resulted in six arrests, following the execution of seven search warrants and inspections at […]

March 18, 2016By Colin Mann

British video industry trade body rebrands

Reflecting the evolving video market, the British Video Association (BVA) – which has a proud heritage representing the interests of publishers and rights-owners of pre-recorded filmed entertainment for the past 35 years – has unveiled its rebrand and positioning to become the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). Explaining the rebrand – unveiled at the […]

March 17, 2016By Colin Mann

Italian police bust pay-TV piracy ring

Italy’s Financial Police has exposed a fraud of pay-TV operators Sky Italia and Mediaset Premium, leading to charges being raised against 240 people. The investigation targeted an inhabitant of the city of La Spezia in possession of a sophisticated software system and connected hardware equipment, capable of illegally receiving and retransmitting the encrypted signal of […]

March 15, 2016By Branislav Pekic in Rome

Pirates arrested for movie ‘camming’

Two men aged 44 and 19 have been arrested by officers from Northumbria Police in the north-east of England after they were found to be in possession of an illegal audio recording of a newly-released film. The arrests took place at the Empire Cinema in Sunderland on March 10th at the end of a screening […]

March 15, 2016By Colin Mann

Rebranded Creative Content Australia to combat piracy

The IP Awareness Foundation, the Australian film and television industries’ body for the promotion of copyright, creative rights, piracy research and education resources, has rebranded as ‘Creative Content Australia’. The organisation has expanded its membership, appointing long-time copyright advocate Graham Burke, Co-Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Village Roadshow as Chair, and new directors […]

March 9, 2016By Colin Mann

Verimatrix, Friend MTS team to battle piracy

Verimatrix, a specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, and content protection provider Friend MTS are partnering to leverage fully the benefits of forensic watermarking addressing the growing threat of premium content and live event piracy. The pair say the capabilities of the Verimatrix VideoMark content tracking […]

March 8, 2016

Talking to Irdeto’s Andrew Wajs, March 2016

Advanced Television talks to Andrew Wajs, CTO at Irdeto, about how all platforms now need to work with multiple DRMs for multiscreen provision, and how Irdeto can manage a providers’ keys and credentials and all DRM  operations through a cloud service. We also talk about UHD and forensic content marking at origin, and the market intelligence that […]

March 7, 2016

MPAA welcomes Honduras anti-piracy efforts

MPAA Chairman and CEO Senator Chris Dodd has welcomed the announcement by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) of a new Intellectual Property Work Plan with the Government of Honduras. The work plan addresses key IP issues, including the retransmission of unauthorised satellite signals, often referred to as signal piracy. The work plan […]

March 4, 2016By Colin Mann