Cisco develops system to automatically cut off pirate streams

[Kevin Lancaster]

Cisco develops system to automatically cut off pirate streams

Cisco says it has developed a system to disable live pirate streams, according to a report by TorrentFreak.

 

[klipdrifter]

I rate the pirates will have a workaround by next week

 

[Swa]

I rate the pirates will have a workaround by next week

Already have one. Call it re-encoding and it's used with most streams by default.

 

[Syphonx]

Wouldn't a VPN bypass this?

 

[HavocXphere]

Wouldn't a VPN bypass this?

It would. And Cisco wouldn't ever block VPNs...part of their core customer base (enterprise) VPNs the sht out of everything. Hell my phone & laptop barely function without it.

 

[Swa]

Wouldn't a VPN bypass this?

Would only protect the user pirating and not the one providing the stream.

 

[HavocXphere]

Would only protect the user pirating and not the one providing the stream.

oh I'm sure they'll cry many tears if one of their thousands of streams gets cut off by a router somewhere along the way.

 

[Swa]

oh I'm sure they'll cry many tears if one of their thousands of streams gets cut off by a router somewhere along the way.

I don't think you understand what they want to do.

 

[HavocXphere]

I don't think you understand what they want to do.

I may have commented without reading article.

Anyway...read it now. A similar system has been in use for both cinemas and pre-release copies for years. Its done nothing to curb piracy. A slightly more automated approach will just make it automatically achieve nothing.

Also...the VPN angle isn't all that far off the mark: You can encrypt video streams with https (netflix does)...and the cisco tech won't be able to detect the watermarks then.

This is a grand waste of everyone's time.

 

[koeksGHT]

All they are gonna do is end up making everything SSH tunnels.

 

[ginggs]

I will not be buying one of these.

 

[kianm]

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