Stream Digital

As a company we have taken a unique approach to anti-piracy. Rather than a fragmented approach, we have developed multiple solutions and brought them into one video product. This has resulted in an incredible success rate of piracy blocking. Stream Digital have been working for the past five years on a suite of measures and software that when combi... ned provides a very robust and solid solution to the on-going issue of live event security. We check every session to identify VPN deployment. If detected, a warning appears on the users screen and the stream is denied until the VPN is disabled. This prevents pirates hiding their identity and users within a blocked region watching the content. We use a secure and reliable method of live checks during the event to establish if the code is being tampered with. This could be hackers trying to disable any of the watermarking or on-screen identifiers. It could also be an attempt to hack the DRM or pull the stream through another method. When interference is detected the stream is automatically disconnected and a notification is sent to the CMS to flag the user as a potential pirate. The biggest challenge to broadcasters is identifying re-streamers. DRM only works to remove the straightforward ways to steal content. It is pointless if you allow the screen capture re-streaming or any other method of pushing a copy online. We looked at this problem and broke it down into three stages. We have built our secondary system around these three stages. We identify by using our tracking system, we find the source by our onscreen identifiers and we kill the session using the revoke feature and the tools in our Videobloc CMS prevent them re-subscribing by tracking their details and blocking their accounts.Read More