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Piracy-iQ is a groundbreaking service for measuring streaming piracy consumption over internet service provider (ISP) networks that allows content owners, programmers and pay TV providers to assess the impact of piracy on their businesses and track the performance of their content protection services.

Until now, the content protection marketplace hasn’t offered the analytical tools needed to truly understand the scale of piracy consumption and the effectiveness of anti-piracy services. With Piracy-iQ, content theft can be precisely measured and additional security countermeasures can be deployed in a highly targeted manner based on accurate data.

With unmatched managed services for watermarking and global monitoring using fingerprint-based content recognition, Friend MTS helps Pay-TV operators, rights holders and broadcasters control where their video content flows. An industry first,

Piracy-iQ provides illicit content monitoring and IP address capture, and it enhances the reporting of third-party network flow analysis systems to streamline the generation of piracy analytics. The service enables real-time and post-event analytics with rapid and in-depth reporting of piracy consumption patterns. By using this data, the performance of key anti-piracy services, such as subscriber watermarking, can be monitored more effectively on an ongoing basis.

 

Piracy-iQ operates in both fixed and mobile broadband environments, and it delivers unmatched monitoring speed and effectiveness. It has already been tested by major content owners, pay TV platforms and ISPs to quantify streaming piracy consumption, as well as to target highly effective action against illegal redistribution.

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Advanced Subscriber Identification or ASiD has been securing high value live, PPV, and VOD content for years including Hollywood movies and the most watched sporting events in the world. Now ASiD 4th Generation offers content owners, broadcasters, and service operators a complete suite of watermarking and monitoring solutions designed for all types of broadcast, managed, and unmanaged OTT devices, apps, and clients for complete platform protection from illegal content redistribution. Highly robust and fully compliant with the MovieLabs Specification for Enhanced Content Protection, ASiD provides solid protection from the large-scale piracy revenue drain at the time of the increased demand for premium content online with shifts in consumer viewing habits and theatrical windows.

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Distribution iD efficiently and effectively identifies sources of content leaks in distributors’ platforms. Designed for content owners and exclusive licensees of channel or content, Distribution ID works by watermarking content by distributor to identify sources of piracy at the platform operator level.

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Limelight Multi-device Media Delivery (MMD) Live is a powerful cloud-based feature for transcoding live video streams into multiple bitrates, and on-the-fly transmuxing into different formats, enabling a live event to be recorded for later playback. MMD Live reduces workflow complexity while meeting the demands of audiences for the highest quality video viewing experience on their choice of devices. This functionality allows users to stream live events to smart TVs, desktops, mobile screens, and set-top-boxes. MMD Live is integrated with the global Limelight Orchestrate Platform to deliver broadcast-quality live video to connected devices.

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The Limelight Multi-device Media Delivery (MMD) On-Demand (OD) solution is a powerful cloud-based set of video delivery services for automatically converting video content into different formats, which reduces workflow complexity and storage costs, while meeting the demands of device diversity. MMD OD is integrated with Limelight’s global Orchestrate Platform to deliver broadcast-quality video to all connected devices worldwide.

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EdgeFunctions simplifies development and reduces time to production for streaming video and content delivery use cases.

Limelight EdgeFunctions is a serverless compute platform that automatically makes your code available to many edge locations around the world, executes at the network edge close to your users to ensure the lowest latency, and scales to meet demand. EdgeFunctions is ideal for customers needing to implement streaming video and content delivery use cases such as personalized streaming, access control, dynamic ad insertion, A/B testing, image manipulation, and more. It is tightly integrated with one of the world’s highest-performing video and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). EdgeFunctions gives developers tools to boost performance, customize workflows, and scale rapidly while only paying for resources used.

With EdgeFunctions, developers are able to run their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, simplifying development, and reducing time to production. It enables developers to concentrate on what they are good at: coding!

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Protect pre-release assets - including dailies, proxy deliveries of full features and TV series, and trailers - with NexGuard ClipMark, an industry-first solution that allows content owners and post-production houses to detect any source of pre-release leaks on very short video clips, down to thirty seconds in duration. NexGuard ClipMark can be seamlessly deployed in existing workflows with content owners and post-production houses thanks to partnerships with industry-leading transcoder vendors.

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MediaServicesIQ contains a suite of machine learning (ML) applications. These microservices can be applied to speech-to-text, video intelligence, closed caption conformance, and content classification in media workflows. The microservices in MediaServicesIQ integrate easily with media workflows used by broadcasters and media houses, helping them leverage AI/ML technologies within existing workflows.

Media ServicesIQ provides an easy-to-access portal to cloud-based AI/ML services through custom-developed workflows.

  KEY FEATURES & CAPABILITIES

Metadata Generation

Cloud-based collection of speech-to-text and video intelligence applications automating the generation of speech and video-based metadata Provides off-the-shelf integration with the Avid system Easily interfaces with existing workflows using REST API Video intelligence metadata for face, logo, ad, number, on-screen text, object, and shot change detection Metadata with timecodes for tagging, enabling search and faster content retrieval.

Automatic Closed Caption/Subtitle Generation

Machine-generated, time-synced outputs in various sidecar formats for further processing Faster, scalable, reliable, and secure generation of preliminary outputs Easily ingest sidecar files into workflows for repurposing.

CC Quality Conformance for Multi-Platform publishing

Generate reports on non-conformance parameters within a CC sidecar file Automatically compares against predefined style guides standards from platforms such as Netflix Time coded error reports for easy navigation and correction Ability to ingest multiple sidecar formats.

Auto classify content for better value

Automatically create a classification for content Classify advertisements using various labels to automatically identify and ingest Automatic classification of high-points in a feature-length video Easily integrate and ingest labels into existing workflows.

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ExpressPlay Anti-Piracy and Watermarking service (powered by Friend MTS) incorporates content security functionality that includes web piracy monitoring and legal enforcement for linear channels, live events and non-live VOD content. Distributors have access to a suite of managed services based on Advanced Subscriber ID (ASiD) client-side watermarking. The ASiD approach uniquely combines online piracy monitoring processes based on fingerprinting with a watermarking technology that supports fast extraction of payloads in redistributed content. Read more about our co-operation in Intertrust and Friend MTS Extend Partnership to Fight Video Streaming Piracy.

A server-side watermarking option is available through ExpressPlay Watermarking (powered by ContentArmor™). This solution embeds watermarks directly in the encoded and encrypted video bit-stream on-the-fly with no imposition of latency beyond the profiling that precedes insertion.

Some practical aspects and considerations are discussed in our blog post A security strategy for combating piracy of live sports content.

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