Anti-Piracy

The use of online streaming services was already burgeoning well before most of the world started spending so much time at home. The current explosion in the demand for video and m... More

Adobe’s work on a chain of custody that could link online images back to their origins is inching closer to becoming a reality. The prototype, part of the Content Authenticity In... More

Along with stalling film production, shutting theaters and throwing release schedules into chaos, the coronavirus pandemic has brought still another woe to Hollywood: a rise in mov... More

European football's governing body UEFA has secured a High Court order requiring several internet service providers to block the illegal live streaming of matches for the 2020/21 s... More

Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live streams — which means they’ve seemingly solved the co... More

The Premier League has obtained what are described as “enhanced” powers from the High Court in its on-going battle with the pirates.... More

Pascal Metral, Nagra's vice president of legal, explains why there are fundamentally two approaches needed to fight piracy, and how, by working in unison, they can have the greates... More

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers to upload scripts and execute arbitrary code on WordPress sites ru... More

Akamai’s Ian Munford on his concerns about the rise of piracy and what can be done to defeat the pirates.... More

Avigail Gutman, VP of Intelligence and Security Operations at Synamedia, discusses her work preventing hacking and piracy. Among other things, she explains how hackers and pirates ... More

Global recording industry trade organization IFPI has worked with the German national group, BVMI, to take action against five websites in Germany which manipulate music streams in... More

Those who produce and distribute content need to look at the source of piracy through protection devices, considering the technological bias to avoid it.... More

A new report from Boston-based media consultancy firm Cartesian found that 22% of U.S. residents admit to credential sharing, and 42% of those aged 18-24 report the same, adding up... More

From development to consumption, the media and entertainment landscape has changed significantly. There are new challenges for content owners who realize, perhaps now more than eve... More

A number of bogus Facebook pages have emerged in recent weeks, directing fans to non-existent livestreamed shows, in one of a series of Covid-19 streaming scams.... More

Five individuals who between them managed around 20 pirate sites have been convicted by a French court, described by Canal+ as an “important step” in the fight against piracy. ... More

Over the past couple of decades, campaigns aimed at discouraging people from accessing infringing content online have come in all shapes and sizes. Whether they are effective is st... More

Adobe has taken a step toward a more secure PDF with a preview of Adobe Acrobat DC Protected Mode. The preview is available to Windows users running Adobe Acrobat DC version 20.009... More

The Deutsche Fußball Liga, the Spanish Football League, NAGRA and Nordic Content Protection announced the shutdown of an illegal IPTV streaming network based in Spain that served ... More

The new remote work reality is good news for cybercriminals seeking to capitalise on security shortcomings – including workers using personal WiFi networks to access corporate re... More