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.…
Statistics on piracy
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…