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beIN opts for Friend MTS watermarking

April 3, 2017 23.26 Europe/London By Chris Dziadul

The global sports broadcaster beIN has chosen Friend MTS’ live watermarking anti-piracy service Advanced Subscriber Identification (ASiD) to protect all beIN channels on its OTT platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

ASiD uses a watermarking technology to identify originating subscriber accounts that are being used to retransmit live channels and events. It can be implemented without any changes to the video delivery infrastructure, and enables accounts to be identified and video access blocked within just minutes.

For beIN, the technology means that it can identify individual subscribers that are stealing and retransmitting its content and shut them down.

Commenting on the development, Friend MTS’ CEO Jonathan Friend said: “beIN recognises that piracy is a real and costly threat to its pay-TV business and has contracted us to deploy our ASiD services to protect their channels across the beIN OTT platform in MENA.

“With the proliferation of OTT platforms, broadcasters need an anti-piracy solution that can fit both broadcast and OTT. ASiD is a true step change in the fight against video piracy, with a simple and easy to install robust content protection technology that will wipe out OTT and broadcast piracy 100% of the time.

“Our watermarking system is now the most widely used in the world, as we continue to roll out the service with some of the world’s biggest broadcasting platforms.”

Mohammad Al Subaie, executive director of commercial affairs at beIN, added: “Piracy in MENA impacts pay-TV industry immensely. Piracy causes millions of dollars of losses to organisations, governments and deprives legitimate industries like regional content creators from return on their investments. By deploying latest technological means, beIN wants to ensure that our eco-system in the region grows.”

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