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Real-world anti-piracy solutions for sports leagues and broadcasters

Written by Julia Gracheva | Jan 23, 2023 5:00:00 AM

The need to keep pirates at bay and away from the revenue sees content owners, service providers and broadcasters around the globe implement cutting-edge content protection and anti-piracy technologies.

Robin Boldon, Director Strategic Account Management and Nik Forman, Marketing Director, spoke at the Cybersecurity Risk and Sports Production Workshop at the Sports Video Group (SVG) Summit 2022. The workshop is SVG’s deep-dive on the vital challenge of protecting live broadcasts and content from cyberattacks and content theft.

Listen to the welcoming remarks from Nik for a quick overview of the revenue-damaging piracy issue and the importance of tackling it as a community as well as how we at Friend MTS help the industry secure premium content with our watermarking, content monitoring and business intelligence services and solutions aimed at disrupting piracy worldwide. (3 min)

Check out the recording of Robin’s presentation of the case study titled “Real-world anti-piracy solutions for sports leagues and broadcasters”. Robin reveals how a multi-national broadcaster has been protecting its revenue from for-profit pirates that steal high-value sports broadcasts and streams live to service their own paying customers. Learn what challenges the broadcaster faced in the process and what strategies it adopted to successfully address them. (14 min)

You can download your copy of the case study presentation “Real-world anti-piracy solutions for sports leagues and broadcasters” here.