Anti-Piracy
Google Anti-Piracy Agreement Will Target Domain Hopping, Share Search Data (TorrentFreak)
More details surrounding the voluntary anti-piracy agreement between Google, Bing, and major rightsholders have emerged. In addition to efforts to mitigate pirate sites' efforts ... More
M&E Journal: Implementation Challenges, Opportunities in Forensic Watermarking
Rajan Samtani, Graham Oakes — Media Science International Digital content capture and distribution technologies have evolved at a rapid pace as evidenced by the recent push by... More
RIAA Calls DMCA ‘Antiquated,’ Wants Piracy Filters Instead (Slash Gear)
The Recording Industry Association of America, more commonly known as the RIAA, is tired of the ‘antiquated’ process that is DMCA takedown requests. Both the RIAA and a total o... More
Wazee Digital, Paladin Partner to Bolster YouTube Rights Management
Wazee Digital, a provider of cloud-native video management and licensing services, has announced a technology partnership with Paladin, the enterprise platform for next-generation... More
Village Roadshow Wants to Sue Pirates, Block 40 Piracy Sites (CNET)
Village Roadshow has a big plan to stop piracy this year, and one of its goals could have a massive impact on you. The Aussie film distributor has announced plans to go after in... More
Google, Microsoft Crack Down on U.K. Piracy Sites (A.V. Club)
Google and Microsoft have agreed to adopt a new “voluntary code of practice” in the U.K. that will involve them taking steps to make it harder for would-be pirates to find torr... More
Evolution Digital Taps Conax for eVUE-TV DRM
Evolution Digital, which offers integrated IP hybrid devices and IP video solutions, has inked a deal with content security firm Conax, to integrate Conax’s multi-DRM solution fo... More
M&E Journal: HDR’s Potential as a Revolution for Content Protection
By Harrie Tholen, NexGuard — Piracy has long plagued the content industry, from camcorder-toting movie theater attendees to re-streaming and torrent networks. The Motion Pict... More
M&E Journal: Workspace Virtualization Emerging as Solution for Securing Digital Media Assets, IP
By Jill Milton, Teradici — Hollywood filmmakers love hackers. From crime thrillers to superhero sagas, cyber crooks have become the go-to bad guys of countless modern movies a... More
Fortium: Record Year for DVD Award Screeners Using Patronus Content Security
Each year Fortium releases new versions of Patronus anti-rip for the Academy and BAFTA Award’s season. This year saw the highest levels of protection yet as well as the largest... More
Search Engines, Copyright Holders Ready Voluntary Anti-Piracy Code (TorrentFreak)
For several years the entertainment industries have blamed companies like Google for not doing enough to prevent instances of Internet piracy. At times, Google has even been accuse... More
It Might be Time to Stop Using Antivirus Services (Ars Technica)
ormer Firefox developer Robert O'Callahan, now a free agent and safe from the PR tentacles of his corporate overlord, says that antivirus software is terrible, AV vendors are ter... More
Copyright Alert System Comes to an End (MCN)
The Copyright Alert System, a voluntary program started in February 2013 that involved several major ISPs such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T, the Motion Picture Association of A... More
An End to Media Piracy: Closer Than You Think (FreeCast)
The TV business is changing before our eyes, and largely to the chagrin of most traditional media executives who are unsure how to approach the new landscape of the industry. Un... More
President Trump Told That Strong Copyright Laws Are in His Interest (TorrentFreak)
On Friday January 20, Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States after one of the most controversial election campaigns of modern times. For those ... More
CES 2017: NexGuard Looks to the Future of Distribution; Accenture Tackles AI
LAS VEGAS — Hollywood studios have long toyed with the idea of premium VOD — releasing new theatrical content early in the home — and some like Universal Studios have even ex... More
Trump Questions Quest for Cybersecurity: ‘No Computer is Safe’ (The Washington Post)
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned whether critical computer networks can ever be protected from intruders, alarming cybersecurity experts who say his comments ... More
Google Removed Over 900 Million Pirate Links in 2016 (TorrentFreak)
Day in and day out copyright holders are bombarding Google with DMCA takedown notices, pointing out links to pirated content. The majority of these requests are sent by the music ... More
MPAA: More Work Needed vs. Piracy Sites
The recently released United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) annual 2016 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets — which identifies online and physical marketplaces world... More
‘Game of Thrones’ Most Torrented TV-Show of 2016 (TorrentFreak)
For several years in a row Game of Thrones has been the most pirated TV-show, and this year the interest is once again overwhelming. Game of Thrones has the honor of becoming th... More