White Paper: Attacks on Subscriber Watermarking Technologies
Wednesday 16th September
Review and analysis of known real-world attacks on subscriber watermarking solutions A subscriber-level watermarking solution coupled with a large-scale content monitoring is a highly effective anti-piracy measure that allows content owners and distributors to fully protect their content and revenue from theft beyond digital rights management (DRM) systems. In order to provide customers with the […]
How To Trust Your Player: Building an OTT Service for Today’s World
Thursday 10th September
Fireside Chat 2 – Securing Content Access with Digital Rights Management Best Practices Pirates are always developing new ways to attack OTT content. In our second fireside chat of the “How to Trust Your Player” series, Intertrust, Bitmovin and Friend MTS shares insights on different methods of attack, and how you can protect your content […]
How To Trust Your Player: Building an OTT Service for Today’s World
Fireside Chat 1 – Tips from the top: Secure content delivery and playback To help guide you in building and implementing an effective, protected OTT service, Bitmovin, Friend MTS and Intertrust have come together to share best practices on how to make sure your end-users are as trustworthy as the technology you’ve implemented. Join us, […]
Service Sheet: ASiD – Advanced Subscriber Identification
Monday 10th August
In terms of significant financial damages for legitimate content owners and distributors, commercial piracy presents a very real threat. This illegal activity is becoming ever more sophisticated and better organised. Complex pirate ecosystems that comprise a whole host of different illegal players supporting and profiting from illegitimate redistribution of premium content, are known to use […]
IABM TV in Conversation with Friend MTS
Friday 19th June
In this IABM TV interview, Chris White (Operations Director, Friend MTS) discusses some of the piracy trends he is currently seeing as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Chris provides his answers to the following questions: 1. What piracy trends are you seeing as a result of the COVID-19 crisis? 2. With some live sports […]
Beyond DRM: The Complete Content Protection Story
Tuesday 9th June
The scale and complexity of the contemporary piracy landscape should not be underestimated. This three-part series of articles explains why it is not enough to implement a Digital Rights Management system and what solutions need to be in place for complete premium video content protection to prevent its illegal redistribution. The series includes: Beyond DRM: […]
Attacks on Subscriber Watermarking Technologies – White Paper Quick Facts
Tuesday 2nd June
With traditional content protection measures like conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) systems, valuable premium content is safeguarded from theft only until the point of its consumption. As the next level of content protection aimed at securing premium sports and entertainment content from the point of its consumption, subscriber watermarking is a powerful […]
NAB Express 2020 Presentation Video: Completing the Content Protection Story – Filling the Streaming Content Gaps
Thursday 14th May
Watch this NAB Express presentation by Alan Ogilvie to learn why content owners and distributors should consider incorporating subscriber level watermarking to fully protect their premium content from illegal redistribution and what the key differences between two watermarking technologies used for streaming media are (17 min).
SportsPro OTT Summit 2019 Panel Session Video: Protecting IP
Thursday 12th December
Watch the “Protecting IP” panel session at the SportsPro OTT Summit 2019 in Madrid where Simon Hanna speaks of the importance for content owners and operators to act now to stop piracy and protect revenue (30 min)
Advanced Television, IBC 2019: Fighting Streaming Piracy
Wednesday 4th September
Simon Hanna shares how Friend MTS goes about combatting streaming piracy: Assessing consumption patterns and identifying sources of piracy.
