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Google’s Widevine CAS is a royalty-free conditional access system that helps traditional broadcasters compete in the realm of OTT HEARD IT THROUGH THE WIDEVINE
he biggest issue our customers typically face around piracy is not so much theft itself, but the technical challenges they must
overcome to address strict content owner security requirements across the industry,” says Michael Stattmann, CEO and CTO of castLabs. “Our customers are concerned with content owners’ response to piracy, which they must address.” That is to say: having content stolen is bad, but having to tell someone you let their content get stolen is worse. For OTT services, this means implementing multiple DRM systems to account for an abundance of devices and platforms using different technologies. “For MPEG-TS-based broadcaster delivery ranging from IPTV to satellite, this means they must implement a conditional access system,” continues Stattmann. Fortunately, there are a slew of well-tested tools for securing content and some new technologies that are promising to revolutionise how content owners and broadcasters can secure content. castLabs offers DRMtoday, a cloud- based digital rights management and licensing service with multi-region capability, powered by AWS. The service enables castLabs’ customers to easily adopt all the major DRM systems at once with just one integration, including Google Widevine, Microsoft PlayReady and Apple’s FairPlay Streaming. Using DRMtoday, streaming services are better able to meet studio content security requirements to protect against piracy. With the addition of Widevine CAS, broadcasters enjoy the same convenience for securing their transmissions, while enabling hybrid services with a single integration.
PRESTOplay is castLabs’ player technology for delivering video on demand and live content across multiple outlets. It simplifies the playback of DRM-protected MPEG-DASH, Smooth Streaming and HLS video content over browsers, Android/
Android TV, iOS, desktops, smart TVs, game consoles and STBs. PRESTOplay for Android also supports the MediaCas API, which enables a single player to be used for encrypted broadcast, OTT and hybrid services on Android TV devices, extending
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