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Hot Take: Password Sharing Is Fine, But VPN Streaming? That’s Stealing
Here’s a bit of a hot take that deserves some discussion: if any streaming “behavior” really needs to be cracked down on, it’s VPN usage. Yeah, you heard me. While platforms lose their minds over people sharing passwords, a much bigger issue is people using VPNs to bypass geo-restrictions on content. So many VPNs boast about how you can watch Netflix shows from other countries by simply changing…
The "Golden Age of Streaming" is just starting. Here's how it's impacting content protection and digital rights management.
Golden age of streaming service providers also must contend with the fragmentation within the generations of operating systems. This is especially challenging when it comes to dealing with Android devices, which in the smartphone sector accounts for 87% of the global user base according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
Since then sports programming has become a part of leading OTT TV service bundles worldwide, drawing ever larger audiences to online consumption. For example, Amazon has launched live streaming of Thursday Night NFL Football, Premier League Soccer, and other high-profile events.
Live sports, TV and online movie piracy is big and costly. Piracy research shows it’s a major ROI problem for rights owners and distributors
Content piracy is so big that its impact is felt beyond the bank account — it’s changing business models. Traditionally in the movie business, new releases often stayed in theaters for months to maximize revenues. As digital downloads, and now streaming, have made it easier for content pirates to obtain and distribute illegal copies.
Unlike pirated TV shows or movies, the value of a sporting event is fleeting, with revenue being lost in a very small window. If stakeholders aren’t fighting piracy in real time and in collaboration with others across the delivery chain, losses can increase rapidly.
As shown by the scale of loss estimates, piracy ecosystem is a big business that leverages the same advances in streaming, asset management
As shown by the scale of loss estimates, piracy ecosystem is a big business that leverages the same advances in streaming, asset management, advertising support, and other components of legitimate OTT operations.
But since older devices don’t support later versions of HDCP, then that could limit the content reach for the streaming service provider, and therefore the latest HDCP versions are not enforced at all times. Therefore, professional pirates rely on HDCP stripper devices to set up their piracy ecosystem operations. Not only can they feed the pirated content to origin servers for distribution of live streaming, but there is next to no loss in quality compared to the legitimate service.
In this article, you’ll learn more about how DRM tokens work and how digital rights management can help secure your content.
The least technically sophisticated approaches that pirates use to get around the robust protection of sophisticated ott drm systems include high-quality camcording from 4K UHD TV displays. Advanced methods, similar to those of professional pirates, include high-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) strippers.
Content Encryption Keys (CEK), it is critical that the content packaging workflow and the multi-DRM system are tightly integrated. The content packager needs to retrieve the CEK from a multi-DRM service provider that manages these keys securely.
Sports fans are excited about live sports services but so are the media pirates. Video watermarking is crucial to combating live sports pira
All online video watermarking services originate from legitimate sources let alone rights holders. The rapid growth and value of live streaming services has attracted the attention of professional pirates and multi-national crime syndicates.
Illegitimate live OTT sports services have proliferated in many regions reflecting the global demand for streaming services, which has accelerated partly as a result of the pandemic lockdowns combined with the ease of access to such content on all kinds of consumer devices.
While piracy of live sports is nothing new, what has changed is the content distribution technology. With traditional broadcast TV, piracy was initially focused on smart card cloning, or even full set top-box replication, followed by so-called control word sharing.
Conditional access system (CAS) companies played a huge role in enabling digital. We take a look at how conditional access systems work and
Conditional access system (CAS) are used by content providers, such as pay-TV operators, to ensure only those subscriber devices which meet certain conditions can access the protected content.
Conditional access systems work by encrypting digital transport streams (the pay-TV content) and sending authorizations to decrypt the content separately via entitlement management messages (EMM) .
One of the main attributes of traditional (legacy) broadcasting is that it is a one-way distribution system. Under this system, the satellite or cable feed is distributed to everyone, and the transmitting organization does not receive any feedback regarding who is picking up their feed or what they are doing with it.