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Piracy: Address the Problem, Provide a Better Option

by Andy Marken

Awhile back – quite a while – we spent frustrating days divorcing our cable bundle of hundreds of channels (we only watched a few, the rest were just “there.”). It wasn’t a messy divorce, …

Tags:Piracy| Streaming Video| TV Viewing

Creative Content Production Tool Advances at NAB

by Andy Marken

Maybe it’s the fact that it’s been three years since folks could gather to see and talk about creative industry stuff. Maybe it’s because creators and deliverers want to discuss the important topics of …

Tags:NAB 2022| Piracy| Security| Video Editing & Production| Virtual Sets

Links Week Starting 14th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (Most of them monitors, it seems!) MSI: …

ExpressPlay announces integration with Hisense Smart TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vidaa and Intertrust ExpressPlay announced that Hisense SmartTVs based on Vidaa can be preloaded with Intertrust’s ExpressPlay XCATM content security for broadcast TV protection. This allows SmartTVs to protect content without …

Tags:Broadcast| DRM & Content Protection| Piracy| Security| Smart TV

Links for w/c 15th March 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Sony’s new 4K TVs with ‘cognitive’ CPUs …

Content Piracy Isn’t A Victimless Crime

by Andy Marken

We like IP (Internet Protocol) because without it there would be no streaming content industry. “I’m the good guy here. I told them this could happen if they didn’t prepare. Did I get a …

Tags:Movies & Content| Piracy

Mood Changes – It’s Time to Streamline Streaming Services, Protect Content or … ?

by Andy Marken

Last Sunday evening, we played Twister with our daughter after she complained, “I’m bored and there’s nothing on TV.” Are you kidding me? We have Netflix, Disney +, Amazon Prime, Apple TV +, Hulu, …

Tags:OTT Video| Pay TV| Piracy| Streaming Video| SVOD

Italy-led action shutters 5,500 pirate sites

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced TV reported that the Italian Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police) has led to the closure of over 5,500 illegal live streaming sites and more than 350 Telegram channels. The network …

Tags:Content Protection| Italy| Piracy| Trademarks and Copyright

What Bob Saw on the Net 26/03/2019

by Bob Raikes

Most days, our editor, Bob, spends some time looking around the net for news. Here are some articles and links that he thought worth sharing… (note that registration or subscriptions may be required!) Oculus …

What Bob Saw on the Net 08/04/2019

by Bob Raikes

EU court: Selling streaming boxes with piracy add-ons is illegal

by Bob Raikes

We reported on a court case in the UK that saw a dealer brought to court for selling a streaming box which was a ‘fully-loaded’ Kodi box, which included plug-ins that allowed access to …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Piracy| Trademarks and Copyright| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Irdeto Offering Smart DRM

by Bob Raikes

We haven’t previously reported on Irdeto, but something their PR company told us must have been persuasive and we met with Richard Scott, SVP Sales & Marketing from the company this time. The firm …