MovieLabs has released the latest Version 1.3 of its enhanced content security specifications for 4K, HDR and premium window content, with additional guidance on disabling debugging interfaces and handling security software updates.
For content providers (studios, content owners, content aggregators, or other content licensors) and their licensees (affiliates) operating in a multiplatform world - and pirates looking to obtain illegal access to the most popular content - it’s an unrelenting game of cat and mouse. While the internet has provided a cost-effective and easy way to deliver content to consumers, it also opens up new vulnerabilities that content pirates are eager to expose.
Vualto, which specializes in video streaming and DRM, says that ITV chose its event orchestration technology to deliver live streamed events via the ITV Hub video-on-demand service. This also featured the firm’s DRM protection.
Vualto’s digital rights management solution, VUDRM, is being used by French public broadcaster France Télévisions, to protect and deliver its audiovisual content across all its digital platforms.
The complexity of modern OTT and VOD distribution has increased massively in recent years. The adoption of internet streaming gives viewers unparalleled freedom to consume their favorite live and pre-recorded media when they want, where they want, and how they want. But these opportunities have also presented content owners with unfortunate challenges, typically piracy and overcoming illegal content copying.
Video integration company Insys Video Technologies has made its services available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, starting with Insys VOD Express.