Broadpeak Launches New Anti-Piracy Solution For Streaming Events

Broadpeak®, a leader in streaming and monetization at scale, has introduced a new anti-piracy solution to help content providers fight revenue loss and piracy, particularly during high-scale streaming events.

The comprehensive security solution, which will be showcased for the first time in full at IBC2025 (12-15 September), reinforces Broadpeak's Content Delivery Network (CDN) with video-specific anti-piracy capabilities, providing an enhanced alternative to generic security features or less sophisticated in-house systems.

According to Parks Associates, growing piracy rates mean that content providers are expected to lose a total of over $113 billion to piracy by 2027 in the US alone. Alongside subscription revenue loss, content providers are also pressured to reduce the extra costs of bandwidth for video delivery which is used for piracy. Broadpeak's anti-piracy solution enables streaming companies to counter billions of dollars of revenue leakage with comprehensive, multi-layered protection – combining token validation, scalable DDoS protection, and innovative anti-token-sharing with system-level intelligence to protect a high number of streams during peak live events.

Broadpeak's tailored solution offers multi-level protection and anti-piracy measures at both the system and video levels, blocking threats like credential sharing, scraping, unauthorized access, and token abuse before they impact operations. This is in contrast to general-purpose CDN services that often lack visibility into suspicious behaviours unique to video streaming, or in-house systems that only act locally and miss a global system view. Integrated into Broadpeak's CDN, natively designed to deliver high-audience streaming events, the service scales seamlessly during traffic peaks – addressing mission-critical use cases in live sports and entertainment.

"Piracy is taking so much money out of our industry, the attacks are only growing, yet far too many video service providers aren't doing enough to address it," said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO at Broadpeak. "Implementing proper anti-piracy measures costs far less than the revenue losses caused by inaction. We're uniquely placed to deliver streaming-specific security solutions that protect high-value content, at high scale, in real-time. Our complete solution fixes revenue loss with features that were exclusively designed for streaming."

Broadpeak's anti-piracy solution is available as an additional service within its CDN – whether deployed on-prem or via Broadpeak's CDNaaS offering – and can be flexibly delivered as a managed service, fully-supported 24/7 by its global team of video specialists. The system integrates seamlessly within customers' wider security feature set, ranging from web protection and digital rights management to security information and event management (SIEM) systems. Customers can easily expand their anti-piracy toolset by harnessing Broadpeak's content protection solutions alongside those of several leading partners – including the joint solution in partnership with NAGRAVISION, strategically detecting, identifying, and disrupting pirate streams in real-time to combat sports piracy.

IBC2025 will mark the full public debut of the anti-piracy solution, demonstrated for the first time on Broadpeak's stand #1.B79. Visit broadpeak.tv/our-solutions/cdn-security-anti-piracy/ to learn more.

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