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…
Geo Blocking Video: How to Implement Geo Restrictions
Geo blocking video (or geo-restriction) is the practice of restricting access to online video content based on a user’s geographic location. If you’ve ever seen the message “This video is not available in your country,” you’ve encountered geo blocking. Content providers use this technique to control where their videos can be viewed, often to comply with licensing agreements, local laws, or business strategies. In this updated 2025 guide, we understand into why geo-blocking matters, how it works (covering IP-based, GPS-based, and DNS-based methods), tools and services to implement it, how to tackle VPNs and proxies in video streaming. Table Of…
Church Live Streaming: Best Services & Platforms in 2026
Church live streaming has become an effective way for churches to broadcast sermons, worship services, prayer meetings, and special events to people who cannot attend in person. With the right church live streaming setup, viewers can watch services in real time from their homes, while travelling, or from anywhere in the world. Today, churches can live stream their services through social media platforms, dedicated church live streaming services, or their own websites and apps. The right choice depends on factors such as audience size, budget, viewing experience, engagement features, and how much control the church wants over its content. In…
Top 17 Video Streaming Platforms & Hosting Providers
Delivering video content through web platforms using the internet is video streaming. The usage of traditional ways of watching videos like television is rapidly declining. Video streaming is the new medium of sharing information and entertaining content worldwide. Video streaming platforms have become a necessity nowadays when most of our audience is present online. People now want the content to be served at their convenience right then and there on their smartphones and tablets. Instead of reading text articles, people want to watch the content in video format and explore the knowledge. The upsurge in video consumption demands better network…
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,…
DRM Encryption Explained: Every Layer Where Encryption and Decryption Actually Happens
This article is more about DRM encryption specifically and not around the whole DRM system and its working. We will be looking mainly at the layers where encryption and decryption is happening. Most DRM content stops at, “media is encrypted with AES”, and almost nobody maps the distinct cryptographic layers (content encryption, CDM to license-server session crypto, and key-wrapping and delivery). Let us dig into the specs so the article holds up technically. What is DRM Encryption? DRM encryption is not a single encryption performed on a media file where you will get an encryption key and content identifiers. It…