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Interview: Cyber threats grow as pirate attack vectors proliferate
By Steve Hawley
Industry conversations about digital piracy tend to center on the theft and illegal redistribution of video content, delivered through apps, Web sites...
Close-up: Learning anti-piracy best practices from the studios
By Steve Hawley
We continue and conclude our conversation with Chris Odgers, beginning with how a studio might protect itself against cyberattacks. Attacks on IT and...
Close-up: For Hollywood studios, anti-piracy begins with distribution agreements
By Steve Hawley
Piracy Monitor visited with Chris Odgers, who worked in Business Technology roles for 20+ years at Warner Bros. and later with WarnerMedia,...
Intertrust: Attract new subscribers and revenue with the right anti-piracy strategy
by Ali Hodjat, Director of Product Marketing, Intertrust
Total losses to piracy of live streamed content are skyrocketing and calculations of projected revenue loss due...
Hidden Vulnerabilities in Legacy and Third Party Software
By Christopher Rae, SVP of Sales, APAC, Verimatrix
The headlines about the recent SolarWinds data breach have brought three security risks center-stage: end of life software,...
Will a change in strategy mean a change in piracy?
By Mark Mulready
The Video Entertainment landscape drastically changed throughout the past 12 months. Cinemas have been left derelict, with dust gathering on large screens...
An interview with Jonathan Friend
Piracy Monitor's Steve Hawley caught up with Jonathan Friend, the CEO of the anti-piracy technology company Friend MTS at the time this interview took...
BBC Studios: Piracy challenges its distribution strategy; anti-piracy evolves
By Steve Hawley
The British Broadcasting Corporation is one of the premier public institutions in the UK, running eight television channels that are broadcast nationally...
