The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, Football Association Pretoria, the Premier League and La Liga had complained about the mobile app Mobdro The Premier League and La Liga were among the complainants that have brought down piracy operation Mobdro. The application had over 100 million users, and illegally distributed video streams and TV channels. The […]
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Study estimates Premier League games pirated by two million Brits in 2020
The numbers could be affected by the Premier League’s attempt to move to pay-per-view A study from consumer comparison site Finder has estimated that roughly two milion Brits watched an illegally streamed Premier League match in 2020. The report from Finder included a survey of 2,000 Brits that took place in December, asking questions about […]
Report calls for sports anti-piracy rethink after ‘staggering’ illegal viewing figures
Synamedia report finds that new plans are needed to stop sports piracy Video software provider Synamedia has published a report that finds what is described as a ‘staggering’ 83% of the most engaged fans who watch sport every week access illegal streams. Featuring work by Ampere Analysis on research on the behaviour and motivations of […]
COMMENT: Understanding why sports fans break the rules
Simon Brydon, senior director, sports rights anti-piracy, Synamedia, on why piracy of sports broadcasts remains a problem and what can be done about it. From spying on an opponent’s training session ahead of a crunch fixture to sandpapering the cricket ball, the dubious ways rules have been bent and broken to give sports teams an […]
The return of sports brings with it the return of streaming pirates
Carlos Rocha Gonçalves at Jscrambler on what’s being done to try to keep the pirates at bay. At last, sport is slowly but surely returning — albeit looking very different to what we all remembered. The global lockdown has seen OTT streaming services soar in popularity and usage, and the return of the sports we […]
Dorna Sports and LaLiga team for anti-piracy fight
MotoGP rights holder to use LaLiga’s anti-piracy services MotoGP and the WorldSBK superbike championship rights holder Dorna Sports has struck a deal with Spanish football’s LaLiga to use its anti-piracy services. LaLiga’s content protection department will use its anti-piracy tools to monitor and eliminate illegal MotoGP and WorldSBK audiovisual content hosted on social networks, digital […]
BT steps up piracy fight
Strikes partnership with ATEME to use its encryption techniques to protect satellite uplinked content BT is stepping up its efforts to combat the piracy of its subscription-based content through a new partnership with video infrastructure company ATEME. BT is using the company’s encryption techniques to protect satellite uplinked content, and BT’s Media and Broadcast unit […]