OTT and TV platform provider Viaccess-Orca (VO) has announced a partnership with Harmonic to optimise content protection for live sports streaming.
VO’s dynamic watermarking technology will be integrated with Harmonic’s VOS360 cloud SaaS platform. The companies said that the combination will offer content owners and providers a “simple, scalable solution for quickly identifying piracy sources and stopping content restreaming”.
VO’s dynamic watermarking detects content redistributed from broadcast, IPTV, and OTT networks. It allows operators to identify and remove the source of restreaming within minutes, which is critical for live sports events. Blind identification on VO’s dynamic watermarking technology eliminates the need for metadata and enables content providers to automatically detect the chunk size of the original stream. Fully scalable, dynamic…
