Jonathan Friend CEO Friend MTS It is for good reason that video services like Netflix, Hulu, Google Play Movies, and Amazon Prime Video don’t allow some smartphones¹ to stream movies or TV shows at higher resolutions. Digital rights management (DRM) is built into many devices and protects these services with this lockout in order to […]
Watch this IABM presentation by Alan Ogilvie (Lead Product Manager, Friend MTS) to find out what a well-architected end-to-end content protection solution that enables effective anti-piracy looks like, in particular: why OTT and streaming services need to protect their premium content beyond digital rights management (DRM) systems; why forensic video watermarking is a crucial part […]
Watch our fireside chat or read the article below Steven Hawley Founder & Managing Director Piracy Monitor Diagrams sourced through Friend MTS Digital rights management isn’t enough to stop the redistribution of stolen video content outside of its legitimate service context. In our previous article, we described how unique but invisible identifiers can be embedded […]
Watch our fireside chat or read the article below Steven Hawley Founder & Managing Director Piracy Monitor Diagrams sourced through Friend MTS Last time, we recognised video piracy as an expensive risk for video providers, and showed that once the content has arrived at its intended legitimate destination, the traditional video security techniques of Conditional […]
Watch our fireside chat or read the article below Steven Hawley Founder & Managing Director Piracy Monitor Diagrams sourced through Friend MTS Piracy is a huge business. The US Department of Commerce estimated [1] that the US economy suffers at least $29.2 billion in revenue losses each year. By 2023, the revenue to pirates of […]