Payal Kapoor

Data interoperability enables flexible data operations for organizations, along with the freedom of not being locked into proprietary software or siloed data frameworks. The use of open-source tools such as HDFS can be easily combined with existing cloud data architecture, giving organizations the flexibility to use their data as they need it and in whatever way suits them best. Companies are seeking to modernize existing data warehouse assets with features like dynamic rights management, secur...

The most common content protection technology was associated with set-top boxes (STBs) that decrypted cable and satellite broadcasts for those who had paid their subscription. These are known as conditional access systems (CAS). Although these legacy technologies are gradually becoming outdated and will eventually need to be replaced, they’re still forming a considerable part of the content protection technology stack of traditional pay-TV operators, and maintaining backwards compatibili...

The Golden Age of Streaming — the era that the Economist magazine is calling a “$650 Billion Binge” — is just starting. Shows like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and Transparent have ushered in a new generation of entertainment marked by its large numbers of international viewers and acclaimed programming. In 2019, subscriptions to online (OTT) video-on-demand services around the world amounted to 1,072,000, surpassing cable by far with 613.3 million subscribers. The OTT VOD subscription...

A prospective digital rights management vendor needs to be able to assure access and interoperability across all platforms and with all kinds of OTT devices. ...

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The most successful approach piracy ecosystem use is to run deeply discounted online services with linear portfolios, often with hundreds of channels. By aggregating content into multichannel streams with professional-quality EPGs, pirates can deliver a user experience that’s comparable to legal services — and steal their advertising and subscription revenue in the process.  These illegal services organize the content into multi-language presentations, allowing them to reach an international au...

Revenue and brand for live sports watermarking organizations and streaming services around the world. Overall, by 2023, the revenue to pirates of pay TV and non-pay TV video is expected to exceed $67 billion worldwide. And even before the advent of COVID-19, the cost of overall online piracy worldwide was projected to hit $52 billion by the year 2022 – not including live sports or pay TV. Beyond rightful owners losing an enormous amount of revenue, content piracy in the live sports world is a d...

Globally, the volume of global OTT drm streaming has grown 63% between Q2 2019 and Q2 2020, according to a report from Conviva, a leading supplier of video analytics technology. Similarly, total losses to piracy of streamed content worldwide are skyrocketing, impacting live and on-demand services alike. Digital TV Research projects that by 2022, global losses to online video piracy will reach $51.6 billion — nearly double the amount lost in 2016. Consider that hackers have honed their technical...

Video watermarking (a.k.a. forensic watermarking or video watermarking) is a technology that is complementary to DRM and CAS, and it is a crucial element of an anti-piracy strategy. Forensic watermarking is used to imperceptibly alter video content (modification of a few pixels) to hide a unique identifier (forensic evidence, or “payload”). It is a similar concept to invisible ink and paper watermarks. In the case of OTT streaming, a multi-DRM service provides content protection for transport an...

Conditional access systems (CAS) are used by content providers, such as pay-TV operators, to ensure only those subscriber devices which meet certain conditions can access the protected content. Conditional access systems work by encrypting digital transport streams (the pay-TV content) and sending authorizations to decrypt the content separately via entitlement management messages (EMM)  Global CAS systems are underpinned by specific industry standards such as Moving Picture Experts Group (MPE...

The purpose of digital rights management is to protect digital content and associated revenue for rights holders. Digital rights management works by encrypting content and then ensuring users meet certain conditions in order to decrypt it. Digital rights management is the technology that is used to protect and monetize intellectual property and copyrighted materials from misuse or theft in the digital sphere. The two core objectives of digital rights management are data protection and data...