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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 8 - Issue 5 | May 2018

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New Venture for Verimatrix and TMG

A

new venture for Verimatrix
and TMG, combining forensic
watermarking and global monitoring
services, will offer a strong response
to the growing threat of illegal content
redistribution.
The
partnership
will
involve
Verimatrix's watermarking portfolio
for live and on-demand premium
content coming together with services
from TMG that use advanced security
techniques to monitor multiple
platforms, identify the source of each
illicit stream, and effectively shut the
perpetrator down.

Petr Peterka, Verimatrix

The solution addresses the interests
of all stakeholders with a service
that detects and disables illegitimate
video streams when detected, while
identifying the source of the pirated
content.
Previously, hackers provided websites
with open streams over the Internet,
monetised through advertisements,
but with poor video quality. Today
it is more common to find premium
services online, where hackers capture
and redistribute the high-quality video
as a low-cost paid service.
As these illicit services require
registration and paid subscriptions,
it is more difficult to automate Webcrawling tools to detect such illegal
streams on the Internet, but this new
solution from Verimatrix and TMG
aims to protect high-value live sports
and premium on-demand content
and associated revenue, ultimately
ensuring these markets remain viable
for investment.
The Verimatrix watermarking portfolio
consists of its VideoMark client-side
solutions, its server-side StreamMark
solutions and its cloud-based Reveal

service, a set of tools offered to extract
and interpret the embedded payload,
providing source analysis to trace
piracy to its source.
"As the demand for forensic
watermarking solutions increases,
video service providers need a
comprehensive anti-piracy platform
that can stay a step ahead of the
growing sophistication we are
seeing from pirate sites," said Petr
Peterka, CTO of Verimatrix. "TMG is
an innovator of global monitoring
services that can even identify illicit
streams hidden behind paywalls and
social sites, which are not detectable
by
typical
anti-piracy
search
methods. We are excited to work
with TMG to enhance the value of our
watermarking solutions to customers."
TMG uses content discovery, video
capture technologies, high-precision
fingerprint content recognition and
advanced network forensics to quickly
identify
unauthorised
premium
content streams.
The service provides 24/7 defence as it
continuously monitors for live streams,
on-demand content and direct

downloads. When a stream is detected
and identified, the system traces
the full network path throughout
the distribution chain to identify the
stream source. It subsequently triggers
Verimatrix's watermarking extraction
process to identify the source of the
leaked content.
"The functionality of our combined
solutions is perfectly suited for today's
illegal peer-to-peer streaming sites,"
added Bastien Casalta, CTO of TMG.
"Our work with Verimatrix will help
protect and enhance our customers'
revenues, while deterring pirates from
setting up shop."

Bastien Casalta, TMG
http://www.inbroadcast.com http://www.verimatrix.com http://www.tmg.eu https://www.provys.com/ http://streamcircle.com/ http://streamcircle.com/
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