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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Premier League has issued legal proceedings in a civil claim against Neosat, a business accused of supplying illegal broadcast systems which facilitate pirated streams of its football matches. This will be the fourth supplier the League has taken civil legal action against in the last 12 months – with a number of others set […]
Dutch pay-TV operators are teaming up in an effort to detect and combat more effectively illegal TV viewing. In particular, they are targeting control word sharing and streaming which they say lead to economic and social damage and harm the entire media sector, including creators and rights holders, producers, broadcasters and providers of legal packages. […]
In what is seen as the first test of Australia’s new copyright laws, media company Village Roadshow is to lead an action – backed by Hollywood studios – in the Australian Federal Court aimed at requiring Internet Service Providers to block piracy website Solarmovie. The move follows recent successful action in Singapore and in November […]
ISPs in Singapore have been ordered to take down a web site which offers free streaming of a range of US film and TV shows in the first court action in Singapore since the government amended the Copyright Act in December 2014, enabling content owners to seek a High Court order to require ISPs to […]
Open-source media player Kodi is to take action against rogue sellers who modify the software, installing broken piracy add-ons, advertising that Kodi allows the user to watch free movies and TV, and then vanishing when the user buys the box and finds out that the add-on they were sold on was “a crummy, constantly breaking […]