Features
Half of Filipino consumers access pirate or torrent sites for content
A new study of the online content viewing behaviour of Filipino consumers, has found that 49% access streaming piracy or torrent sites. Read more…
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NAGRA redefines pay-TV value propositions in the digital age
Stephane Le Dreau of NAGRA discusses the challenges pay-TV players face, the perennial piracy problem, and the importance of IoT and smart home security. Read more…
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Personal data should be protected as aggressively as copyright
Record labels and movie production companies work hard to protect their copyrights, especially when it comes to digital distribution solutions, which has resulted in all kinds of restrictions in how content can be copied, distributed Read more…
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APAC pay-TV still getting clobbered by OTT players and piracy: forum
The Asia Pacific pay-TV industry remains under siege from OTT services and rampant piracy, which is expected to impact growth and revenues, according to executives attending the 2018 Asia-Pacific Pay-TV Innovation Forum, hosted by Nagra Read more…
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Irdeto expands Tata Sky partnership, upgrades piracy control solution
Irdeto announced at CES 2018 that it has expanded its long-term security partnership with Indian satellite pay TV operator Tata Sky, under which Tata Sky will implement Irdeto Cloaked CA and middleware to deliver an improved customer Read more…
Features
Video piracy is alive and well and quite dangerous, actually: Irdeto
If you thought video piracy is mainly about unauthorized downloads, and that the rise of streaming video would solve the problem, you’d be wrong on both counts. Pirates are adapting with the times – the Read more…
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Anti-piracy coalitions bust illegal streaming box supplier in Australia
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and CASBAA’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) announced that they have managed to shut down a company in Australia selling IPTV set-top boxes pre-loaded to play pirated movies, television shows, sports Read more…
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#CASBAACON Day 1: CASBAA declares war on illegal streaming boxes
The CASBAA Convention 2017 in Macau kicked off on Tuesday with, among other things, the official launch of CASBAA’s new Coalition Against Piracy (CAP), which aims to combat ‘illicit streaming devices’ (ISDs) in Southeast Asia Read more…
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Sharing Netflix passwords isn’t the revenue drain Wall Street thinks it is
ITEM: Young people have a tendency to share log-in details for video streaming sites like Netflix – and it’s freaking out Wall Street. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 21% of streaming viewers aged 18 to Read more…
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APAC pay-TV players must innovate to fight piracy and OTT: study
Asia-Pacific pay-TV operators face significant challenges from content piracy and low-cost OTT services, and will need to innovate and develop new business models to overcome those challenges. Those were the overall findings from Pay-TV Innovation Forum Read more…
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Crackdown on illegal video streaming boxes pleases CASBAA
Regional pay-TV association CASBAA says it applauds recent crackdowns on illegal video streaming services in Thailand and Malaysia that have seen tens of thousands of consumers of such services in Asia suddenly lose their connections Read more…
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Pleasing people and preventing piracy – challenges for pay-TV providers
Successfully connecting people to the content they love requires putting the consumer at the center of the pay-TV experience with intuitive access to the best content, all in one place. On the business side, it Read more…