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Content Protection Technology Hub

An overview of content protection technology hub for rights holders and content teams.

Digital Watermarking for Content Protection

How digital watermarking works and how it is used to trace the source of leaked content, in plain language.

Reupload Detection System Architecture

A reupload system links each new copy back to the case it came from, so a removed film that reappears under a new filename or account is verified and actioned faster, without skipping checks.

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Entity Resolution for Digital Risk Detection

Entity resolution decides when separate records, such as a domain, a Telegram channel and an uploader account, describe the same operator, and keeps the evidence and confidence behind every merge visible.

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Link Graph Analysis for Piracy Networks

Link graph analysis maps how pirate pages, redirects, embed hosts and file lockers connect, so enforcement targets the few nodes that many links depend on instead of removing URLs one at a time.

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URL Clustering for Piracy Investigations

URL clustering groups piracy detections that share a file identifier, a destination, a page template or a host, so analysts verify once, notices are batched per platform and reports reflect real exposure.

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Certificate Transparency Monitoring for Phishing

Certificate Transparency logs record publicly trusted TLS certificates as they are issued, giving early warning when a lookalike domain for a streaming or media brand is being prepared for phishing.

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Domain Monitoring Technology

Domain monitoring tracks the new names a pirate site moves to after blocking or delisting, and the lookalikes that imitate a rights holder, so each one is tied to a known case instead of rediscovered from scratch.

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WHOIS Intelligence for Online Enforcement

WHOIS and RDAP records still show the registrar, nameservers, dates and status of a pirate domain even when the owner is redacted, which is often enough to route a complaint and place a domain in its history.

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DNS Monitoring for Digital Risk Protection

DNS monitoring records how known pirate and lookalike domains resolve over time, so a change of host, proxy or mail setup is spotted when it happens and the right provider is identified before a notice goes out.

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CDN Monitoring for Piracy Investigations

Pirate sites often sit behind a CDN or reverse proxy that hides the origin server. CDN monitoring identifies that layer, separates page delivery from video delivery and works out which provider can act on each.

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Playlist Monitoring for Illegal Streams

Playlist monitoring reads the HLS and DASH manifests behind pirate players and the M3U channel lists sold with illegal IPTV, tracing each stream past the page that shows it to the server that delivers it.

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Real-Time Stream Monitoring Technology

Real-time stream monitoring finds and verifies illegal live streams while the broadcast is on air, capturing evidence that may vanish before the event ends and directing action to the source that can cut delivery.

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Logo Detection for Brand Protection

Logo detection finds a brand's marks inside images and video frames, from a channel bug on a restream to a copied logo on a fake subscription site. How it works, and why context decides misuse.

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Reverse Image Matching at Scale

Searching one image against a very large index is a retrieval problem first and a judgement problem second. How descriptors, approximate search and geometric checks shrink a flood of pictures into a short review list.

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Natural Language Processing for Piracy Discovery

Pirate listings are written to be found by users and missed by filters. Natural language processing helps parse release names, catch translated and misspelt titles, and judge whether a page offers a work or only mentions it.

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Computer Vision for Content Matching

Matching a film or episode is a sequence problem: frames sampled, described and aligned over time. How computer vision copes with mirrored, cropped, speed-shifted and camcorded copies, and what a score cannot say.

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Speech-to-Text for Video Piracy Detection

Turning spoken dialogue into time-aligned text lets a monitoring team search inside audio and video. Where transcripts find copies that titles and thumbnails hide, and where noise, dubbing and music defeat them.

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Image Recognition for Copyright Protection

Photographs, key art, comic pages and book covers are protected works in their own right, and stills also act as signposts to pirated video. How image recognition supports copyright enforcement in both roles.

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Automated Content Recognition for Anti-Piracy

Automated content recognition identifies which protected work is inside a file or stream by comparing its features with a reference set. How it sits in an anti-piracy pipeline, from reference management to live matching.

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Web Scraping in Copyright Monitoring

Scraping is the extraction half of copyright monitoring: pulling titles, players, hosts and download links out of pages already found. How it follows a listing to the file, captures evidence and re-checks after a notice.

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Web Crawlers for Piracy Monitoring

A piracy crawler is a discovery engine: it decides where to start, which links to follow first and when to come back. How seeds, prioritisation, domain changes and recrawl schedules shape what a programme finds.

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Metadata Matching for Piracy Discovery

Titles, years, episode codes, runtimes, cast names and file sizes are weak signals one at a time and strong together. How metadata matching builds candidate matches, and why it never stands as proof on its own.

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Perceptual Hashing for Near-Duplicate Detection

A perceptual hash summarises what an image or frame looks like rather than its exact bytes, so re-encoded and resized copies still land close together. How the hashes are built and compared, and the edits that break them.

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Cryptographic Hash Matching for Content Protection

An overview of cryptographic hash matching for content protection for rights holders and content teams.

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