With the rapid growth of online video platforms, piracy has become one of the biggest challenges for content owners. Whether you run an OTT platform, an online course website, or a paid webinar business, protecting your content is no longer optional. This is where DRM solutions play a crucial role. In the past few years, there has been an exponential increase in video consumption. According to Statista, in 2019 alone, the number of digital video viewers was 2.6 billion, which is reported to increase to 3.1 billion in 2023. With the increase in the number of viewers, the number of…
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Netflix DRM: How Is Netflix Piracy Prevented?
With Netflix's popularity booming around the world, video piracy seems to be a major issue to combat. In 2020, Netflix spent nearly 12 billion U.S. dollars on its original content creation. Any illegal content distribution may lead to a decrease in paid subscribers and revenue loss. When people pirate movies and TV shows, they are less likely to subscribe to legal streaming services like Netflix. To fight video piracy, Netflix uses Digital Right Management (DRM) to protect the copyrights of its premium content. Netflix DRM is one of the most secured anti-piracy solutions for premium videos. Table Of Content: The…
AES Encryption: What it is and how it compares to DRM systems
When you hear the term cyber security, one of the first things that strike to everyone’s mind is AES(Advanced Encryption Standard). The reason for the same is the rise of AES encryption as the global standard of encryption and one of the most popular technologies used for security purposes. If you or your organization offers or is looking out for some cybersecurity solutions, you must have definitely come across the term Advanced Encryption Standard previously. In this blog, we will be looking to illustrate the distinction between AES encryption, secure key exchange protocols, and DRM systems. Popular Streaming protocols that…
Beyond DRM: Why DRM is not enough to prevent Piracy? VdoCipher Security Addons
For quite a long, it was considered that Hollywood approved DRMs (Google Widevine, Apple Fairplay DRM) is good enough to protect videos from piracy. The technologies which hackers pursue to illegally download content or share illegal access have advanced over the years, and currently DRM is not enough to prevent video piracy. We are listing various reasons why DRM is not enough, and what additional protections are done by VdoCipher to fix each vulnerability. Table of Contents: DRM vulnerabilities in past 1 year Extracting video URLs to play outside website/app or app clones Illegal password sharing leading over-usage Screen Capture…
Apple FairPlay DRM: Video Protection on iOS & Safari in 2025
Fairplay DRM is the trusted studio-approved DRM for secure playback in the Apple IOS app, IOS Safari, Mac Safari. In this post, we present a complete guide for implementing Apple FairPlay DRM. FairPlay DRM protects videos from download and also stops screen capture of videos. The second half of the article explains the technology behind Fairplay DRM. The content owner/distributor has to obtain the required license from Apple to use this. As your streaming partner, we provide the encryption and licensing service to use your FairPlay keys. The complete integration setup is handled directly by VdoCipher, you only need to…
Google Widevine DRM: Guide to Security & Integration
Google Widevine DRM - Guide to Security & Integration One of the main reasons several OTT and e-learning platforms implement and use Widevine DRM is to ensure they earn maximum revenues from their content by restricting illegal free distribution of their content due to video piracy. Try Google Widevine DRM Direct Partner with Google for Widevine DRM AWS Standard Technology Partner Table of Contents: What is Widevine DRM? History Of Widevine A Refresher On DRM Widevine Security Levels: L1, L2, L3 Google Widevine DRM Compatibility How Does Widevine DRM Work? VdoCipher’s Widevine DRM Architecture + Streaming Setup Widevine CDM for…