Media Delivery
UEFA and Friend MTS continue fight against piracy
The agreement aims to ensure UEFA remains one step ahead of online bad actors
piracy
Media Consumption
FACT partners with Sky to sink streaming pirates
The crackdown has so far led to three arrests and 40 warning notices
Media Consumption
ITV targets pirates with Friend MTS
The solution identifies illegal streams for immediate takedown
Media Delivery
Broadcasters target streaming pirates ahead of new football season
Sky has reportedly won a High Court order in the UK to force ISPs to block pirate sites from being able to illegally stream...
Media Delivery
Report: Entertainment piracy three times bigger than sport
Comedy is the most pirated genre of entertainment, driven by titles including Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and Ted Lasso, with half of all pirate viewers streaming...
Media Delivery
UK police launch illegal streaming crackdown
Working with FACT and other agencies on Operation Raider, West Mercia Police have identified over 1,000 people who have been streaming content illegally
Media Delivery
House of the Dragon named 2022’s most pirated show
HBO returns to the top of the list for the first time since 2019, when Game of Thrones topped the chart
Media Delivery
HBO blames distribution partner for House of the Dragon leak
“HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet," said a spokesperson for the company
Media Delivery
Viaccess-Orca, Harmonic join forces to prevent sports streaming piracy
Companies have partnered on an automated and scalable event-based anti-piracy solution to safeguard live sports content
Media Management
NAGRA takes anti-piracy capabilities to the metaverse
Company worked with the Brazilian Ministry of Justice on an investigation that entered the metaverse for the first time
Media Delivery
Friend MTS scores Serie A anti-piracy extension
League will continue to use the company's global monitoring services which provide real-time identification of illegal streams of live Lega Serie A content
Media Delivery
WandaVision is most pirated show of 2021
All four Marvel series released on Disney Plus during 2021 were in the top 10
Media Delivery
Viaccess-Orca, French football league block football piracy
VO assists Ligue de Football Professionnel in preventing the illegal redistribution of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches
Media Consumption
Study: Piracy falling in Spain, but economic impact still over €2 billion
The report, carried out by GfK, found that of the €2.416 billion of damage reported, film suffered estimated losses of €322 million, football €231...
Content
Synamedia takes on streaming pirates with ServiceGuard
The company said its new OTT ServiceGuard solution provides a new layer of security to protect both content and video services from OTT vulnerabilities
Media Consumption
Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony ‘first mainstream 8K rip on pirate sites’
File, which includes 8K HLG and 22.2 surround sound, appears to have been taken from Japanese broadcaster NHK
Media Delivery
Analysis: $28 billion ‘goldmine’ in stopping sports piracy
Research found that OTT sports streaming services stand to gain $5.4 billion by employing anti-piracy measures
Media Consumption
How can D2C platforms better protect their exclusive regional content?
Robin Boldon, director product management for anti-piracy at OpSec Security explains why direct-to-consumer platforms at must begin to work with experts and implement...
Media Delivery
Synamedia, Akamai join forces to take down the pirates
Synamedia’s solutions can detect and disrupt pirate streams in real time over the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform and redirect viewers to legitimate services.
Media Delivery
This is the way: The Mandalorian is most pirated TV show of 2020
2020 saw a number of new series enter the top 10 list.
Business
Canal Plus Group, Kudelski shut down Swiss pirate
Two companies worked with Vaud Police, Europol and Eurojust to shut down KBoxServ
Production & Post
The inconvenient truth about content security
By Tobias Pyndt Steinmann, chief technology officer, ioGates ApS
Media Delivery
Piracy is threatening the ‘new normal’ way of life
Shane McCarthy, chief operating officer at Irdeto, explains why content security is even more important than ever during the pandemic.
Business
TVBEurope October 2020 issue now available
TVBEurope's first digital-only issue focuses on piracy and security in the media and entertainment industry
Media Delivery
Premier League gains ‘Super Block’ powers against the pirates
New orders are described as "a reworked and enhanced system" that will enable the League to block more pirate streams than ever before
Media Management
Content piracy: Is it a game of whack-a-mole or collaborative cat and mouse?
NAGRA's Tim Pearson argues that the content industry needs to collaborate in order to defeat piracy – that includes content owners, operators and even...
Media Management
Synamedia gets intelligent with the pirates, Globelynx and The Switch extend partnership, and more
TVBEurope rounds up the latest product and tech news from around the market, including Synamedia, Globelynx, The Switch and Magewell
Media Consumption
It’s time to give sports piracy the red card
Ahead of this weekend's UEFA Europa League and Champions League finals, Mark Mulready, VP Cyber Services at Irdeto, takes a look at the issue...
Media Management
UEFA issues RFP for anti-piracy services
Organisation is looking for one or more companies to provide monitoring and enforcement services in respect of live and non-live piracy
Media Consumption
Strategies for winning the war on piracy
Viaccess Orca's director of security products Kevin Le Jannic discusses how broadcasters and OTT platforms can keep their content safe from pirates
Media Consumption
YouTube not required to reveal private details of pirates rules ECJ
German court sought the ECJ's guidance on what video platforms must do to combat film piracy
Media Consumption
International coalition shuts down illegal streamer with more than two million subscribers
Illegal IPTV streaming network offering more than 40,000 video channels and VoD content
Media Consumption
One in seven OTT households are “borrowing” accounts
Research suggests 70 million households are borrowing one or more OTT accounts across 22 markets worldwide
Media Consumption
Over half of sports fans watch pirated content once a month
The Charting Global Sports Piracy report draws on results from a 10-country study of over 6,000 sports fans
Technology
Atomos enables 5.9K Apple ProRes RAW recording for Panasonic and more
TVBEurope rounds up the top tech stories of the day
TVBEverywhere
LaLiga to lend its anti-piracy services to MotoGP and WorldSBK
Will eliminate illegal audiovisual content hosted on social networks, digital platforms and mobile apps
Media Consumption
BT and ATEME partner to combat piracy
BT will employ ATEME's encryption technologies to protect satellite uplinked content
TVBEverywhere
Game of Thrones was 2019’s most-torrented TV show
The Mandalorian entered the chart at number three
TVBEverywhere
BBC Studios’ content security director to head fight against piracy
Alex Pickering elected chair of the Content Delivery and Security Association
Data Centre
EU piracy falls by 15 per cent
Still €1 billion collected by illegal IPTV providers in the EU each year
TVBEverywhere
The Mandalorian pirated “within three hours” of launch
Disney Plus is unavailable in Western Europe until March 2020