Illegal copying and distribution of film, music, and software are increasing. Although the Internet has played a part in this, the main reason is that the technology to make copies is now widely available. Many people claim that the film and music industry has not been very successful in making their products available to people, so it is the industry's fault that people steal the products. Why do people steal? People steal because they can. It is very easy. Popular internet-based video platforms such as YouTube serve as the main online video sources. There is no doubt that many videos…
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Premier League is Battling Online Video Piracy
Online Video Piracy is Posing an Existential Threat to Premier League Online video piracy is increasingly becoming an existential threat for the English Premier League. The Premier League is widely branded as the best league in the world ( often to the dismay of purists who prefer the more technical Bundesliga or the superstar La Liga). The popularity and scale of the Premier League is rising with the wave of record high broadcasting revenues. The reliance on broadcasting revenues however means that the league needs to ensure that viewers remain on the authorized broadcasting networks, and not opt for illegal video streams.…
How many use easy video download piracy tools ?
[caption id="attachment_1415" align="aligncenter" width="303"] How much is your video content at risk?[/caption] In this blog I present statistics about the popularity of freely available video download tools. These downloader tools enable piracy of your proprietary video content. These tools in the form of software, plugins, sites and extensions are available quite freely across the web. These tools work against non secure video streaming sites to encourage easy video downloads. Number of users of video download piracy tools I have included the link to sources from where I have obtained the relevant numbers for the video download tools. For sites, I have taken the estimated…
How GOT video leak could have been prevented with VdoCipher
Prevent pre-release leaks using dynamic watermarking feature from VdoCipher ? Game of Throne is one of the most popular TV series currently. The first four episodes of the series started making their way around the Internet Saturday night after being uploaded to several Torrent sites, a day before the official Sunday première. The four leaks seem to originate from a screener sent to reviewers and translators ahead of the show's launch. Below link give a detailed news. http://mashable.com/2015/04/12/game-of-thrones-leak/ The main thing to notice here is that video seems to be downloaded using an external camera which explains poor quality of leakage. There is a watermark…