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.
The company said its Streaming Piracy Prevention platform makes use of third-party forensic watermarking to shut down pirate streams in real-time.
The report stated that live pirate streams are growing in popularity around the world, due to the ease at which users can access them.
This creates a problem for pay/satellite TV broadcasters and legitimate streaming services.
Often, pirates will use a legitimate content stream – of a live sports event, for example – and re-stream the content online for free.
The anti-piracy solution will combat this through software from Friend MTS, a UK content-protection company.
The company offers Distribution iD, a service which allows content providers to identify which of their downstream distributors’ platforms are a source of content leaks.
“Robust and unique watermarks are embedded into each distributor feed for identification,” stated the report.
An “Advanced Subscriber iDentification” system is then used to find the source of the video, down to an individual pay-TV account, which can be shut down.
The entire process is fully automated, stated the report.
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