Combating video piracy with forensic watermarking
If you’re a service provider streaming premium OTT video, chances are that as you read this blog, pirates are busy stealing — or at least trying to steal — content from your service to siphon your revenue. Even if you’ve managed to stay under the pirates’ radar until now, content owners are demanding that you […]
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The Battle Against Sports Piracy
In the evolving sports media landscape, one component remains consistent: sports piracy is the single biggest threat to the industry. In fact, it has been estimated that sports piracy could cost as much as $28.3 billion a year – a significant figure given the entire sports media rights market was valued at $55 billion as […]
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Five truths about streaming video piracy
Video piracy is on the rise. That’s a fact. But despite the coverage, and concern, about 21st-century swashbucklers armed with a keyboard and Internet connection, how well do we know pirates? Do we really understand what they do and how they do it? More importantly, is there anything we can do to take them on? […]
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Piracy challenge provides an opportunity that pays off
To beat the pirates first you need to understand them. This has been one of Synamedia’s mantras for success in combating piracy, understanding pirate technologies and pirate hacking methodologies in order to employ the latest technologies to protect our customers’ infrastructure. But as pirates have continued to grow and multiply, they are increasingly costing the […]
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How about looking at password sharing as a growth opportunity and not a problem?
Gone are the days when video streaming services turned a blind eye towards users who rampantly share passwords with friends and family. Leading the pack, Netflix has already sounded the bugle against password sharers, and everyone is watching, taking note. But how about converting these sharers into paying subscribers? According to a Variety report, about […]
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OTT service theft: Why DRM isn’t enough to protect your streaming service
In the second post of our series, we described how pirates exploit various tokens to carry out common hacks on video streaming services. In this post, we’ll look at the vulnerabilities of DRM from two different perspectives. Firstly, how pirates exploit DRM vulnerabilities to gain access to and re-distribute your OTT streaming services. Secondly, how […]
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OTT service theft: Why your tokens are a pirate’s best friend
In the opening blog post of this series, we briefly introduced several common vulnerabilities that pirates exploit with ease to hack your video streaming service. In this blog and the next, we’ll take a deeper look into how pirates take advantage of OTT streaming security weaknesses. Before diving in, however, let’s remind ourselves of what […]
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How Pirates are Easily Hacking Your Video Streaming Service and How You Can Stop Them
Where there’s video streaming, there’s piracy. When pirates started siphoning video content from OTT streaming services over a decade ago by hacking their many vulnerabilities and common weaknesses, the barriers to entry were high: In order to illegally restream high-value content, they needed a high level of technological expertise and the means to set up […]
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Protecting Over-the-Top Streaming with Watermarking and Disruption from Synamedia and AWS
For the first time, content owners can offer premium over-the-top (OTT) content in the most secure and scalable way, applying traceability and real-time live source disruption, to not just identify but also block pirate sources. Together, AWS and Synamedia can help you recover revenue lost to sports piracy Read more
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