Dubai Police crack down on IPTV piracy ring after Disney Star complaint
The raid led to the confiscation of IPTV boxes, which contained 12,000 illegally distributed premium channels and content from various rightsholders.
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The raid led to the confiscation of IPTV boxes, which contained 12,000 illegally distributed premium channels and content from various rightsholders.
The piracy of live sports broadcasts is causing harm to the global sports ecosystem, especially for major events like EURO 2024.
The ruling marks significant progress in the ongoing fight against piracy in the sports and entertainment industry.
The shutdown of Cima4U reflects ACE's ongoing commitment to combating content piracy and preserving the integrity of the entertainment industry in the MENA region.
Enhancing the coalition's efforts in combating global piracy, IBCAP now safeguards renowned channels from a prominent Indian media and entertainment company.
Exploring and analysing efficient content delivery methods, safeguarding content through anti-piracy measures, leveraging data-driven insights in OTT and addressing the technical challenges associated with live streaming were debated at the ...
CimaClub enabled users to directly download or stream pirated content, offering a VOD library of nearly 50,000 movie and TV series titles in Arabic and their original versions.
The awards recognise excellence and innovation in the Media and Entertainment industry.
By adopting Irdeto App Watch and other anti-piracy solutions, OSN will be able to provide better service to customers across the MENA region.
As part of the IBCAP membership offering, it will initially monitor multiple live cricket matches for the IPL 2023 tournament on behalf of Cricbuzz.
Leveraging Nagra NexGuard, Qtake Video Assist software now includes forensic watermarking protections throughout the entire production workflow.
The latest anti-piracy encryption technology will protect premium sports content using Novelsat Ncrypt solution.
For the takedown of Shahed4U, ACE collaborated closely with MENA broadcast media companies OSN and MBC Group.
OSN will help to enhance the coalition's ability to crack down on international illegal piracy operations.
Federal Court ruling against Super Arab includes a broad injunction against dealers, hosting providers and other non-parties, as well as domain name transfers by registries.
The MENA region is facing a number of threats from illegal satellite distributors and internet piracy in the form of IPTV and social media streaming services. BroadcastPro ME recently brought ...
Over the past few months, beIN and CNE have been closely monitoring beIN’s exclusive broadcasting rights and found that they continue to be publicly violated in commercial shops, stores, and ...
Chrys Poulain, MENA Sales Director of NAGRA - Kudelski Group speaks about emerging security threats, credential sharing, sports piracy and how Nagra addresses them
The anti-piracy service tracks send red alerts and later eliminates illicit content from the pirated site.
OTT and pay-TV companies are reported to have lost around $9.1bn in revenue due to piracy and account sharing in 2019 alone. Experts convened for a virtual meet last month ...
One person has been arrested while computer equipment, other communication tools and payment instruments, as well as luxury cars, have been seized.
The presentations and panel discussions of the MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference, which took place from November 3-5, 2020, will soon be available to watch on our website.
The ongoing MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference will take place virtually until November 5, 2020.
The MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy Conference will be streamed live as a webinar from November 3-5, 2020.
Senior executives from StarzPlay, OSN, Viu, ItWorksMe, Bitmovin, Castlabs, ATEME, Nagra, Brightcove, Shure, Synamedia, FACT and MUSO among others will speak at the conference.
This data-led model also makes it possible to measure the efficacy and ROI of anti-piracy initiatives.
For those in doubt about what constitutes piracy, Avi Wachtfogel, Senior Director of Security Strategy at Synamedia, lays it out in black and white and suggests ways to keep one ...
BeIN Sports has warned that moving forward, it will adopt the same strategy to ensure that leagues and clubs also take measures to protect the rights it has sold to ...
231 websites that violate regulations and intellectual property rights will be blocked, the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property (SAIP) announced.
NexGuard Streaming forensic watermarking solution integrated with the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform aims to ensure added protection of high value live and VOD OTT content on a global level.
The MENA Anti-Piracy Conference will be playing a critical role in the fight against broadcast piracy. Make no mistake – this battle is an absolute priority. This event helps in ...
Ammar Al Silawi received the maximum sentence of 300 hours of unpaid community service and has been ordered to pay legal costs to the Premier League.
Technologies on display to include content value protection with anti-piracy services and watermarking, active content monetization, Android TV, data analytics, smart home security and IoT.
From Left: Robert Lakos, founder of Deleel TV; Farah Ramadan, Digital Planning Manager at MBC Group; Manoj Mathew, Territory Head MENA, Pakistan & Turkey for Zee ...
The MENA Anti-Piracy Conference takes place on 23 April at the Ritz-Carlton JBR in Dubai and is free to attend for industry professionals; however, online registration at www.antipiracyconference.com is mandatory.
The Anti-Piracy Conference will cover wide-ranging issues within piracy, addressed by a stellar line-up of speakers representing content owners, streaming platforms, technology solutions providers, the legal fraternity and enforcement authorities, ...
National Police in Spain, Denmark and UK team up with Europol resulting in five arrests and uncovering a complex, international illegal IPTV business
In its bid to fight piracy from all angles, pay-TV network OSN has built a robust and sophisticated anti-piracy system based on AWS cloud architecture.
NAGRA will discuss and find ways to combat piracy and improve the user experience at CABSAT.
Harrie Tholen, VP Sales, Nagra Anti-Piracy & NexGuard.Nagra, a Kudelski Group company and a provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its ...
The progress report presented at the MENA Broadcast Satellite Anti-piracy Coalition meeting, held in Amsterdam during IBC2018, indicates growing collaboration between governments, regulators, industry and advertisers.A total of 242 channels ...
Neil Sharpe, Director of Product Marketing at Friend MTS.When it is prioritised by rights holders and television platforms, content theft can be stopped with subscriber watermarking ...
Nagra, a Kudelski Group company has launched NexGuard QuickMark, a subscriber-level watermarking solution to fight piracy of premium live sports on open devices.While premium live sports are a key growth ...
Consumers who prefer piracy over legal video sites are ensuring that peer-to-peer (P2P) piracy continues to be the major method of accessing illegal copies of movies and TV shows as per ...
Twitters live-streaming service Periscope will be blocked during Turkeys top football league matches, an Istanbul court has said in a landmark ruling. The court has approved a request from satellite broadcaster ...
A card-sharing piracy network has been shut down with the operator of the illegal network convicted and sentenced to 240 hours community service and a fine of more than $52,300 ...
From left: Aditya Verma, Senior Legal Counsel at OSN; Omar Obeidat, Partner and Head of Intellectual Property at law firm Al Tamimi & Co; Waleed Mahboub, ...
The Department of Economic Development (DED) in Abu Dhabi has confiscated free-to-air satellite television receivers from a shop in Abu Dhabi during an inspection campaign last week. The Gulf News ...
From left: Alex Borland, Head of Media Sales EMEA at Ericsson; Dr Naser Refaat, CTO of Rotana Media Group; Petr Peterka, CTO of Verimatrix; and Mike Barley, ...
Nagra, a Kudelski Group company will showcase smart solutions for the OTT era on Booth 1J2-01 at CommunicAsia 2018, taking place June 26-28, at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and ...
Why should we take piracy seriously in the Middle East? Because it has started crippling our media companies to such a great extent that if we dont collectively do something ...
More than 120 professionals gathered together for the inaugural edition of the MENA Anti-Piracy conference, hosted by BroadcastPro ME.The inaugural Anti-Piracy Conference held on May 2, ...
As part of its ongoing efforts to protect the future of television and digital broadcasting, the MENA Broadcast Satellite Anti-Piracy Coalition has announced the closure of more pirate television channels ...
As content owners and distributors continue to address consumer demand for premium content, Interoperable Master Format (IMF) has helped OTT providers and pay TV operators reduce costs and complexity associated ...
Nagra, a Kudelski Group company and a provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has announced that its NexGuard watermarking solution for pay-TV was selected by Korean satellite broadcaster ...
CDN technology provider, Edgeware, and YouGov, an international data and analytics group, has found that the billions lost to online piracy could be halved by putting in place anti-piracy measures. ...
Jonathan Friend, Founder and CEO, Friend MTSContent and revenue protection specialist, Friend MTS, will be honoured with an Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering by The ...
