The John Logie Baird Lecture took place on the 26th June at savoy place, it provided a great insight of the current issues in media protection an piracy. Three esteemed speakers gave the audience a chance to learn current methods of Media/data pirates and the ways in which companies are combating the problems.
Peter Oggel, Chief Technology officer from Irdeto, began the evening with 'Outsmarting the Pirates' , explaining current developments in conditional access technology to counter the evolving trends in piracy. It was shocking to find out the number of times certain shows had been illegally streamed and the technology used to find this information, which will be developed further to keep up with the evolving behaviours of pirate. ( click the link above to watch peters - outsmarting the pirtates)
The second Key note speaker of the night was Lucas Catranis, Vice President of security services at Irdeto. Lucas defined how to address the threat from Piracy by ' combating illegal competition'. It was interesting to find out the ways in which some illegal providers get out and advertise right in front of companies 'faces' with no fear of being punished, some of them will even work together to give larger ranges of channels. ( click the link above to find out in more detail ).
Steve Plunkett, CTO/ Producer/ Innotvator gave a great insight into the 'Anatomy of a Cyber Attack' . Using the TV5MONDE cyber attack as an example of how Pirates hack into systems, it was interesting to see how persistant some of these cyber criminals are and the lengths they will go to for sometimes an unknown purpose. ( To find out more click on the link )
The Lecture ended with a Q&A chaired by Graham Turner, Chair of the Multimedia and Communications TPN. The audience were engaged and put forward great questions that challenged the speakers and allowed them to express their opinions on current matters around content sharing. Overall the Lecture was successful, engaging and relevant. The Multimedia and Communications TPN committee have proven that there are hot topics within their field of expertise and that these can be delivered in an appealing way attracting a wide audience.
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