Piracy – Unravelling the maze
OTT and pay-TV companies are reported to have lost around $9.1bn in revenue due to piracy and account sharing in 2019 alone. Experts convened for a virtual meet last month ...
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OTT and pay-TV companies are reported to have lost around $9.1bn in revenue due to piracy and account sharing in 2019 alone. Experts convened for a virtual meet last month ...
One person has been arrested while computer equipment, other communication tools and payment instruments, as well as luxury cars, have been seized.
The presentations and panel discussions of the MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference, which took place from November 3-5, 2020, will soon be available to watch on our website.
The ongoing MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference will take place virtually until November 5, 2020.
The MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference will be streamed live as a webinar from November 3-5, 2020.
Senior executives from StarzPlay, OSN, Viu, ItWorksMe, Bitmovin, Castlabs, ATEME, Nagra, Brightcove, Shure, Synamedia, FACT and MUSO among others will speak at the conference.
This data-led model also makes it possible to measure the efficacy and ROI of anti-piracy initiatives.
For those in doubt about what constitutes piracy, Avi Wachtfogel, Senior Director of Security Strategy at Synamedia, lays it out in black and white and suggests ways to keep one ...
BeIN Sports has warned that moving forward, it will adopt the same strategy to ensure that leagues and clubs also take measures to protect the rights it has sold to ...
231 websites that violate regulations and intellectual property rights will be blocked, the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP) announced.
NexGuard Streaming forensic watermarking solution integrated with the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform aims to ensure added protection of high value live and VOD OTT content on a global level.
The MENA Anti-Piracy Conference will be playing a critical role in the fight against broadcast piracy. Make no mistake – this battle is an absolute priority. This event helps in ...
Ammar Al Silawi received the maximum sentence of 300 hours of unpaid community service and has been ordered to pay legal costs to the Premier League.
Technologies on display to include content value protection with anti-piracy services and watermarking, active content monetization, Android TV, data analytics, smart home security and IoT.
From Left: Robert Lakos, founder of Deleel TV; Farah Ramadan, Digital Planning Manager at MBC Group; Manoj Mathew, Territory Head MENA, Pakistan & Turkey for Zee ...
The MENA Anti-Piracy Conference takes place on 23 April at the Ritz-Carlton JBR in Dubai and is free to attend for industry professionals; however, online registration at www.antipiracyconference.com is mandatory.
The Anti-Piracy Conference will cover wide-ranging issues within piracy, addressed by a stellar line-up of speakers representing content owners, streaming platforms, technology solutions providers, the legal fraternity and enforcement authorities, ...
National Police in Spain, Denmark and UK team up with Europol resulting in five arrests and uncovering a complex, international illegal IPTV business
In its bid to fight piracy from all angles, pay-TV network OSN has built a robust and sophisticated anti-piracy system based on AWS cloud architecture.
NAGRA will discuss and find ways to combat piracy and improve the user experience at CABSAT.
Harrie Tholen, VP Sales, Nagra Anti-Piracy & NexGuard.Nagra, a Kudelski Group company and a provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its ...
The progress report presented at the MENA Broadcast Satellite Anti-piracy Coalition meeting, held in Amsterdam during IBC2018, indicates growing collaboration between governments, regulators, industry and advertisers.A total of 242 channels ...
Neil Sharpe, Director of Product Marketing at Friend MTS.When it is prioritised by rights holders and television platforms, content theft can be stopped with subscriber watermarking ...
Nagra, a Kudelski Group company has launched NexGuard QuickMark, a subscriber-level watermarking solution to fight piracy of premium live sports on open devices.While premium live sports are a key growth ...
Consumers who prefer piracy over legal video sites are ensuring that peer-to-peer (P2P) piracy continues to be the major method of accessing illegal copies of movies and TV shows as per ...
Twitters live-streaming service Periscope will be blocked during Turkeys top football league matches, an Istanbul court has said in a landmark ruling. The court has approved a request from satellite broadcaster ...
A card-sharing piracy network has been shut down with the operator of the illegal network convicted and sentenced to 240 hours community service and a fine of more than $52,300 ...
From left: Aditya Verma, Senior Legal Counsel at OSN; Omar Obeidat, Partner and Head of Intellectual Property at law firm Al Tamimi & Co; Waleed Mahboub, ...
The Department of Economic Development (DED) in Abu Dhabi has confiscated free-to-air satellite television receivers from a shop in Abu Dhabi during an inspection campaign last week. The Gulf News ...
From left: Alex Borland, Head of Media Sales EMEA at Ericsson; Dr Naser Refaat, CTO of Rotana Media Group; Petr Peterka, CTO of Verimatrix; and Mike Barley, ...
Nagra, a Kudelski Group company will showcase smart solutions for the OTT era on Booth 1J2-01 at CommunicAsia 2018, taking place June 26-28, at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and ...
Why should we take piracy seriously in the Middle East? Because it has started crippling our media companies to such a great extent that if we dont collectively do something ...
More than 120 professionals gathered together for the inaugural edition of the MENA Anti-Piracy conference, hosted by BroadcastPro ME.The inaugural Anti-Piracy Conference held on May 2, ...
As part of its ongoing efforts to protect the future of television and digital broadcasting, the MENA Broadcast Satellite Anti-Piracy Coalition has announced the closure of more pirate television channels ...
As content owners and distributors continue to address consumer demand for premium content, Interoperable Master Format (IMF) has helped OTT providers and pay TV operators reduce costs and complexity associated ...
Nagra, a Kudelski Group company and a provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its NexGuard watermarking solution for pay-TV was selected by Korean satellite broadcaster ...
CDN technology provider, Edgeware, and YouGov, an international data and analytics group, has found that the billions lost to online piracy could be halved by putting in place anti-piracy measures. ...
Jonathan Friend, Founder and CEO, Friend MTSContent and revenue protection specialist, Friend MTS, will be honoured with an Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering by The ...
Doug Lowther, CEO, IrdetoIrdeto has acquired gaming security solutions provider, Denuvo, to extend anti-piracy and anti-cheat solutions for games on desktop, mobile, console and VR devices. ...
Picture only for illustrative purposesIn a significant development in the fight against copyright piracy, Saudi authorities are clamping down on illegal cable networks that operate mainly ...
Dish has filed suit against two over-the-top video providers, Spider-TV and Tiger Star, it says are pirating Arabic channels for unauthorised distribution, as per media reports."We feel it is our responsibility to ...
Irdeto has launched its next-generation Piracy Control solution. Providing detection and enforcement for content owners and operators, the online piracy detection and enforcement solution now provides new data-driven web video ...
Nick Fitzgerald is Chairman of TV2UMoving beyond the IP address as a means of identifying a viewer or their location is now possible. In addition to ...
Neil GaneCASBAA, the Asian trade body serving the pay-TV industry, has established the Coalition Against Piracy (CAP). The Coalition Against Piracy includes leading video content creators ...
David Butorac, CEO, OSN.Following the crackdown on TV piracy in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah that was led by the concerted efforts of pay-TV network OSN, ...
Khaled Al-Jamal has joined Irdeto as Sales Director.Khaled Al-Jamal has joined Irdeto as Sales Director and will head the companys MENA operations, BroadcastPro ME can reveal. ...
David Butorac, CEO, OSN.Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) joined hands with OSN to conduct anti-piracy raids, in which three shops in Sharjah were inspected and fines ...
Bahraini officials with OSN's anti-piracy team.OSN organised an in-depth workshop for the officials of various Bahraini Ministries and government departments on the adverse economic impact of ...
MBC and OSN have managed to garner support to fight the illegitimate distribution of content on TV as well as online platforms. Vibhuti Arora finds out how legitimate players are ...
