With Netflix's popularity booming around the world, video piracy seems to be a major issue to combat. In 2020, Netflix spent nearly 12 billion U.S. dollars on its original content creation. Any illegal content distribution may lead to a decrease in paid subscribers and revenue loss. When people pirate movies and TV shows, they are less likely to subscribe to legal streaming services like Netflix. To fight video piracy, Netflix uses Digital Right Management (DRM) to protect the copyrights of its premium content. Netflix DRM is one of the most secured anti-piracy solutions for premium videos. Table Of Content: The…
How To Prevent Video Download From Your Website?
"How to Prevent video download?" This has been a major concern for any video platform looking to generate revenue for them. Let’s take a scenario which we recently faced with a customer. Andrew, a product head in a major eLearning video platform based in the USA reached out to us. Their platform allows individual teachers to create courses on their platform. These are pre recorded videos and contain the complete syllabus for the year. Their courses were really popular among students. But they saw a steep decline in the number of sign ups and views of their popular courses. After…
Online Video Watermarking: Encoding & Overlay
Online Video Watermarking has been an essential part of controlling video piracy to a considerable extent. Video piracy is the act of acquiring or copying someone else's content. And then selling or distributing a copyrighted video without the consent of the copyright owner. Over the past few years, it has become a major concern for e-learning content producers, broadcasters and movie producers. However, with the availability of high-speed internet and a pool of Internet streaming sites, a pirated copy is readily accessible to a global audience for viewing online and downloading within just days of its release to theatres. Here…
AES Encryption: What it is and how it compares to DRM systems
When you hear the term cyber security, one of the first things that strike to everyone’s mind is AES(Advanced Encryption Standard). The reason for the same is the rise of AES encryption as the global standard of encryption and one of the most popular technologies used for security purposes. If you or your organization offers or is looking out for some cybersecurity solutions, you must have definitely come across the term Advanced Encryption Standard previously. In this blog, we will be looking to illustrate the distinction between AES encryption, secure key exchange protocols, and DRM systems. Popular Streaming protocols that…
Video SEO Best Practices in 2026: Rank Higher on Google, YouTube & AI Search
If you’ve ever looked up something on Google and saw a short video or YouTube result pop up in the results, that’s Video SEO in action Video SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is all about improving your video ranking in search results, whether it’s on Google, YouTube, or even LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini etc. It’s how you make sure the right people find and watch your videos. Back in the day, it was just about ranking videos on Google. Then came YouTube SEO, where optimizing titles, tags, and watch time became the key to getting views. Now, in 2025, we’ve…
15 Best WordPress Video Player Plugins of 2026
Videos are one of the most popular formats of multimedia. It is very powerful and can be used for multiple purposes. Video-sharing platforms like YouTube can be used to create, share, and view hundreds of thousands of videos. Similarly, OTT platforms like Netflix can be used to host subscription based entertainment content. Video marketing is one of the most effective marketing techniques by which businesses can boost their presence. If you have a WordPress built website for your businesses, it would be highly recommended by businesses marketers and analysts, that videos could really impact your product or service. You might…