Piracy Monitor E-Newsletter: Vol. 2 - Issue 02 - February 3, 2020
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In Indonesia, content from a recently closed pirate site lives on through 200 other sites. Broadcom addressed a security flaw but has your TV provider updated you? The Australian government agency has updated its online piracy research. The trial of two major US pirate operations is pushed back to July. Parks Associates says that video piracy could exceed $67B in 2023. We learned about malvertising and updated our coverage of beoutQ. Stories below!
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Jetflix / iStreamItAll trial postponed to July 2020
One of North America’s larger recent video piracy cases has been moved back again, giving a US federal court more time to review materials handed over by Canada, 19 months after US authorities made the request. The sites claimed to offer "more content than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Amazon Prime" combined. (More...)
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Indonesia: Pirated IndoXXi content lives on, through other sites
Since the January shut-down of IndoXXi, the Video Coalition of Indonesia (VCI) has reported more than 200 new sites to Indonesia’s Minister of Communications and Information (KOMINFO) so they can also be blocked. (More...)
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Cablehaunt: Broadcom chips cited for security flaws
A group of security researchers found implementation errors in Broadcom chips that are built into cable modems used by a number of US and European pay TV operators, which are deployed in the homes of millions of consumers. The flaw was addressed by Broadcom in 2019 but has your local pay TV provider implemented the software fix? (More...)
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Turkish broadcaster claims $84M loss to piracy
Turkish broadcaster Digiturk revealed that it has lost TRY500 million, the equivalent of US$84 million, to video piracy. It's the Turkish subsidiary of beIN Media Group, and has 3.5 million subscribers. (More...)
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Parks Associates releases Video Piracy: Ecosystem, Risks and Impact
This new report finds the value of pirate video services accessed by pay-TV and non-pay-TV consumers could exceed $67 billion worldwide by 2023. It examines trends in content piracy, methods for stopping these emerging piracy methods, provides a five-year forecast for the impact of piracy on the video industry and includes several piracy case studies. (More...)
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Australia: 2019 consumer research about online piracy
The Australian Government’s Department of Communications and the Arts released its Consumer survey on online copyright infringement 2019. Higher-income consumers were more likely to consume unlawful content. 16% of consumers attempting to access blocked sites went on to find alternative illegal sites. (More...)
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What is Malvertising?
Unlike ‘adware,’ which is a type of malware unto itself, malvertising is a technique used by pirates (and others) to distribute fraudulent advertising, which in turn could be used to distribute malware or execute other types of attacks. (More...)
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Asia: Analyst firm cites piracy among threats
The executive director of Media Partners Asia cites piracy and consumer choice as threats to the traditional pay TV industry ecosystem, whose business models depend on “branded channels and sports rights in the pay-TV window.” (More...)
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NIST: New Privacy framework complements Cybersecurity framework
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), part of the US Department of Commerce, has released a framework designed to help IT operations identify and manage privacy risks, while protecting individual privacy. Since they are intended to protect personal information, both are essential anti-piracy components. (More...)
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beoutQ: The world's biggest pirate operation?
One of the worlds largest video piracy operations continues, as beoutQ remains in the industry spotlight. For those readers unfamiliar with beoutQ, this article aggregates information that is available across multiple public source into one article. (More...)
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2019 was a year of piracy awareness but the job is just starting
Video providers are beginning to see video piracy as a central business concern. There's a growing realization that it's the result of industrial scale efforts by bad actors, and not just from casual password sharing among friends and family. Piracy models abount. Some cases have been resolved and others are oingoing (More...)
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