Jailbreaking an iPhone gives users more control over their devices. But for businesses that sell premium video content, it can also create a serious security risk. When someone jailbreaks an iPhone, they remove some of the software restrictions Apple puts in place. This gives them greater access to the operating system and allows them to install unauthorized applications, modify system behavior, and potentially bypass security checks. For video streaming platforms, this can create opportunities for piracy. Hackers may exploit vulnerabilities in a jailbroken device to interfere with Digital Rights Management (DRM), capture protected videos, or extract content that would normally…
How to Stop Video Piracy: 10 Prevention Steps (2026)
If you are a business owner that deals in video content, Chances are that your videos are being pirated and you might be facing a substantial loss of revenue. The movie industry alone incurs a loss of around 40 and $97.1 billion due to digital video piracy. That’s a substantial amount, isn’t it? Video piracy remains a serious threat in 2026, siphoning off revenue and undermining the hard work of content creators. Industry reports estimate that digital video piracy drains over $50-70 billion from the global economy each year and it consumes nearly 24% of worldwide internet bandwidth. For video…
Sell Videos Online: Step by Step Guide on How to Sell Videos Online
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up? If you’re anything like me, the answer would probably be scrolling through your phone. Checking messages, and emails and going through the Instagram feed and whatnot! Our devices have almost taken over our days, we consume more content in a day than our ancestors did the whole of their life! This content can be anything from images on Instagram, a blog article on the blockchain, a funny GIF, or even educational videos. Amongst these videos is one of the widely used forms of content. Be it an ad on youtube,…
ExoPlayer Tutorial (Media3): Secure Video Streaming on Android
If you're building an Android application that streams video, choosing the right media player is critical for performance, security, and user experience. Google's ExoPlayer, now part of AndroidX Media3, is the most widely used media playback library for Android. It supports adaptive streaming formats such as HLS and MPEG-DASH, Widevine DRM, subtitles, offline playback, and advanced customization beyond what the native MediaPlayer API offers. In this guide, you'll learn how to integrate Media3 ExoPlayer into your Android application, stream secure videos, implement DRM protection, and optimize playback for production-ready apps. Note that ExoPlayer is now part of Google's Media3 library…
Live Sports Piracy: What It Is, How It Happens & Which Sports Lose the Most
In the United Kingdom alone, an estimated 3.7 million unique IP addresses watched the 2026 Champions League final through illegal streams, a figure analysts suggest could represent as many as 16.2 million actual viewings. Not one of them showed up in a rights holder's subscriber count. Live sports piracy at that scale is not a fringe of determined freeloaders. Research across ten markets found that 51% of sports fans watch pirated content at least once a month, and the detail that should worry every broadcaster is that 89% of them already pay for a legitimate subscription. They are not refusing…
Embed Video in Chamilo LMS – Video Hosting Guide
Read this post to embed video in Chamilo LMS using Vdocipher. You paste the VdoCipher embed code in a small HTML file, upload that file to the course Documents, and add it to a learning path. Students watch the DRM-encrypted video inside Chamilo, and your course video will be secure from piracy. This guide shows every step with screenshots. We tested it on a fresh install of Chamilo 3.0.1 with default settings, so you don't have to change any admin settings to make it work. Table of contents Why Chamilo course videos need a separate host What you need before…