{"id":183884,"date":"2016-10-21T15:38:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=183884"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:39:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:39:39","slug":"cisco-develops-system-to-automatically-cut-off-pirate-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/183884-cisco-develops-system-to-automatically-cut-off-pirate-streams.html","title":{"rendered":"Cisco develops system to automatically cut off pirate streams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco says it has developed a system to disable live pirate streams,\u00a0according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/cisco-develops-system-automatically-cut-off-pirate-video-streams-161021\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TorrentFreak<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company said its\u00a0Streaming Piracy Prevention platform makes use of\u00a0third-party forensic watermarking to shut down pirate streams in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that live pirate streams are growing in popularity around the world, due to the ease at which users can access them.<\/p>\n<p>This creates a problem for pay\/satellite TV broadcasters and legitimate streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>Often, pirates will use a legitimate content stream &#8211; of a live sports event, for example &#8211; and re-stream the content online for free.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-piracy solution will\u00a0combat this through software from Friend MTS, a UK content-protection company.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u00a0offers\u00a0Distribution iD, a service which\u00a0allows content providers to identify\u00a0which of their downstream distributors\u2019 platforms are a source of content leaks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRobust and unique watermarks are embedded into each distributor feed for identification,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>An &#8220;Advanced Subscriber iDentification&#8221; system is then used to find the source of the video, down to an individual pay-TV account, which can be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>The entire process is fully automated, stated the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/181618-piracy-sites-have-taken-a-beating-in-2016.html\">Piracy sites have taken a beating in 2016<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cisco says it has developed a system to disable live pirate streams, according to a report by TorrentFreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[36,20673,2924],"class_list":["post-183884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-internet","tag-active","tag-internet-piracy","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183886,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183884\/revisions\/183886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}