Dubai Police crack down on IPTV piracy ring after Disney Star complaint
The raid led to the confiscation of IPTV boxes, which contained 12,000 illegally distributed premium channels and content from various rightsholders.
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The raid led to the confiscation of IPTV boxes, which contained 12,000 illegally distributed premium channels and content from various rightsholders.
The new campaign will see Spain’s top league continue to be broadcast exclusively on beIN Sports for 25 consecutive seasons across 23 MENA markets.
The piracy of live sports broadcasts is causing harm to the global sports ecosystem, especially for major events like EURO 2024.
Enhancing the coalition's efforts in combating global piracy, IBCAP now safeguards renowned channels from a prominent Indian media and entertainment company.
While media rights holders miss out on $28bn, the consequences of illegal streams are far darker than lost revenue, putting the region’s economy, employment, data protection and personal safety at ...
CimaClub enabled users to directly download or stream pirated content, offering a VOD library of nearly 50,000 movie and TV series titles in Arabic and their original versions.
Ateme has incorporated the scrambling protocol into its Kyrion, Titan and Pilot solutions.
With this agreement, both companies will work together on several media-related issues in order to strengthen their relationship.
How do broadcasters offset the stratospheric ticket cost of sporting rights? Can sports subscribers be converted into entertainment consumers? And how can value leaks be plugged? A panel of MENA ...
For the takedown of Shahed4U, ACE collaborated closely with MENA broadcast media companies OSN and MBC Group.
According to the data, stopping piracy of a single Hollywood major movie release can trigger revenues of between $130m and $280m in the US alone.
Digiturk now has access to a diverse set of Irdeto technologies, including Irdeto Watermarking and Cardless CA solutions.
OSN will help to enhance the coalition's ability to crack down on international illegal piracy operations.
Action as part of a series of measures taken to stem retailers in Jordan from promoting and profiting through the theft of intellectual property.
According to local insights shared by MBC Group, hundreds of websites pirate its content daily, including Arabic-language and locally produced films, series and programmes.
MyTek sold subscriptions to IPTV services that streamed pirated beIN channels over the internet.
The MENA region is facing a number of threats from illegal satellite distributors and internet piracy in the form of IPTV and social media streaming services. BroadcastPro ME recently brought ...
ACE and beIN supported the takedown of 18 other sites in June, all of which were illegal live sport operators based in Cairo.
The first Asia-based companies, Viu and True Vision join a coalition of 39 members.
In the month of May 2022, the four websites attracted 1.8m users from Egypt and 4.8m viewers worldwide.
Over the past few months, beIN and CNE have been closely monitoring beIN’s exclusive broadcasting rights and found that they continue to be publicly violated in commercial shops, stores, and ...
It will provide video service operators with a complete solution set to effectively manage security risks related to content and service and to drive advanced business models.
BeIN is the 38th company to join ACE and the coalition's first sports broadcaster.
Cashing in on the thrills of watching trained race camels mounted with robotic jockeys galloping at 70km/h and the spills of F1 cars hurtling around a track, video pirate sports ...
The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy, which represents more than 150 TV channels from around the world, has successfully shut down some of the largest pirate services in the US.
The move comes after several warnings from beIN Media Group CEO Yousef Al-Obaidly on the importance of piracy.
Brooklyn-based retailer 786 Wireless and its owner, Rana Afzal, were also sued.
Universe IPTV is an Arabic language IPTV service sold through a large network of resellers.
OSN detected and removed more than 380,000 links for pirated content online and conducted 43 raids across the region this year.
231 websites that violate regulations and intellectual property rights will be blocked, the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP) announced.
89% of sports fans subscribe to a pay-TV or OTT service, yet 51% watch pirate sports services at least once a month.
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 ...
“Rights values are going to drop off a cliff, and the very economic model of our industry is going to be re-written. Any rights-holders who think that the technology companies ...
It is not known whether the shutdown is temporary or permanent, but it marks a significant victory for legitimate broadcasters.
Titled Fighting Back: Using Technology to Shield Media Assets, the second panel discussion, moderated by Ahmed Abbas of DigiSay, addressed the need to shield media assets using technology.
Local dailies reported that ISP blockades instituted recently were responsible for the closure of other illegal content distributors like Arab Lions, Akoam, Movies land, Arab Seed, Mazzika Today, Shahid4u, and ...
National Police in Spain, Denmark and UK team up with Europol resulting in five arrests and uncovering a complex, international illegal IPTV business
Following news reports last evening that beIN sports channels have been taken off the du network in the UAE, the country's other telco operator, Etisalat has confirmed that the FIFA ...
Sandvine, a provider of network intelligence has released a Global Internet Phenomena Spotlight report focusing on paid subscription television piracy services. The report reveals that 6.5% of households in North ...
Pay-TV network OSN has announced that authorities in Kuwait have shut down a cable network, allegedly stealing its content in Kuwait. The network's spokesperson stated that Kuwaits Criminal Investigation Department ...
BeIN has signed a three-year deal with Irdeto. The deal will enable the network to further secure the delivery of its live sports and entertainment content to customers across the ...
GeoGuard will make its IBC debut this year. It will be demonstrating why Geo-Piracy should be taken more seriously by the content industry. GeoGuard will showcase how its advanced solutions prevent ...
Three content pirates have been sentenced in Cairo following a collaboration between security services provider Irdeto, MultiChoice Africa Limited (MAL) and Egyptian enforcement authorities. The three defendants were found guilty ...
Sophie Moloney.One of the first things I did when I took the lead role in fighting piracy at OSN was to change the language. We talk ...
Members of the MENA Broadcast Anti-Piracy Coalition.The satellite provider members of the MENA Broadcast Satellite Anti-Piracy Coalition have made public commitments to remove pirate channel clients by ...
In a major swoop down on TV piracy, Alexandria Police raided two shops on Al Malek Hifni Street and confiscated more than 370 IP decoders, 500 LAN converters, 175 Wi-Fi ...
Ted Sarandos spoke in a video conference during DIFF.Netflix is set to launch in the MENA this year. Dubai Film andTV Commission hosted a video conference ...
Dubai Courts has sentenced a dealer of illegal IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) services to a three-month jail-term and fined him AED 50,000. He will also be deported after the jail-term. ...
Doug Lowther, CEO, Irdeto.Doug Lowther, CEO of Irdeto, talks to BroadcastPro ME about how the rise of broadband has made piracy a global challenge, and how ...
Nigeria has launched a US$12 million fund to tackle piracy in the audiovisual industry by improving the country's content distribution network.The latest initiative in the ongoing Project ACT Nollywood - ...
While a proliferation of devices enables the delivery of premium content to far more consumers, it also makes content more vulnerable to illegal use. According to security experts, the bigger ...
Sony and FIFA will collaborate to cover the World Cup in 4K.Viaccess-Orca has released a series of reports that provide detailed information about live-streaming piracy and ...
