In related cases, a federal district court and a federal bankruptcy court, both in Florida, have ordered Hisham Manse Ibrahem and Nezar Saeed Hammo, US-based sellers of the pirate service ATN, to pay $32,100,000 (€29.8m) in combined damages for wilful copyright infringement. The cases were filed by DISH Network, a member of trade body the […]
Trade body the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) has reported key 2022 achievements in protecting its members’ content and removing pirate services from the US market and worldwide. Through the continued development of its proprietary software that enables automated scanning of set-top boxes (STB) and automated sending of takedown notices, the IBCAP lab more […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and media and entertainment solutions, has announced a collaboration with Canal+ Telecom – a subsidiary of Canal+ Group operating in Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy, Martinique, French Guiana and Reunion Island with 150,000 subscribers – and Otodo – a home automation company that provides […]
A federal court in Texas has ordered a local seller of the Super Arab IPTV service to pay $2.1 million (€1.97m) in damages for wilful copyright infringement while also ordering the removal of IBCAP (a coalition of leading international and US content owners, broadcasters and distributors) member channels from the pirate service. The case was […]
Italian DTH platform Tivùsat has announced it will block the use of uncertified set-top boxes with official smart cards. The Tivusat smart cards are sold in a bundle with certified decoders and CAMs, however it is possible to find pre-activated Tivùsat smart cards on eBay and several online sites. It is a well-known fact that […]
SDMC, an Android TV solution provider, together with NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, and Amlogic, a fabless semiconductor company and system-on-a-chip (SoC) provider, have jointly launched an ultra-secure Android TV Solution leveraging NAGRA content protection technology for pay-TV operators. The joint end-to-end solution is based […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its NexGuard forensic watermarking and detection services have been selected by CineSend, a player in streaming video solutions for high-security media applications. CineSend OTT is a white-label streaming platform widely used by the Media & Entertainment space […]
XroadMedia, a leading provider in personalisation and content discovery, has partnered with NAGRA – a Kudelski Group company and the world’s leading independent provider of content protection – to integrate its cloud-based Ncanto content discovery solution into NAGRA’s OpenTV Video Platform. The integration is available via the NAGRA OpenTV Video Platform, which provides service providers […]
The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) welcomed over 200 delegates from across the region for its first ever Korean focused conference and its first in market event since 2019, with Korea in View, which took place on 30 August at the Westin Josun, Seoul. To set the scene, AVIA CEO Louis Boswell presented key highlights […]
NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that United Cloud, the innovation center of the United Group, the multi-play telecoms and media provider in South East Europe, has selected NAGRA’s NexGuard Watermarking to expand its security solution, ensuring OTT content protection for all United Group’s […]