Preventing piracy - Conax

Preventing piracy
Protect yourself to the full
Today most pirates are searching for digital
treasure. Some just want pay-TV services for free,
but plenty more are organised criminals, chasing
the lucrative gains they can make from card sharing
and redistribution of premium content.
The results can be hugely damaging for operators.
Piracy not only threatens your immediate revenues,
it also limits your potential for subscriber growth.

Conax has an unprecedented 20-year record in
preventing piracy and securing valuable content.
Our goal is to make it impossible for pirates to share
smart cards or to redistribute content in any way.
The key advanced security defences we deploy are:
- Conax Chipset Pairing
- Conax Fingerprinting
- Conax Watermarking
Conax Chipset Pairing – securing smart cards
and devices
Conax Chipset Pairing is an additional level of
security that protects content all the way through
to the consumer device.
We pioneered the concept of pairing – the
cryptographic coupling between smart cards
and STBs, so that an STB only accepts a smart
card with which it has been paired, effectively
preventing control word sharing.
Our pairing technology prevents STB hijacking,
where STBs are used in operations they were not
licensed for. All major vendors supplying chipsets
for use in STBs have integrated Conax Chipset
Pairing. Conax-secured chipsets are used in a large
variety of devices, from entry level STBs and
CAMs to the most advanced high-end residential
gateways and connected home devices.
Conax Chipset Pairing:
• Prevents control word sharing
• Prevents STB hijacking
• Enables secure authorisation of several devices
in a connected home
Fingerprinting – securing live content
Conax Fingerprinting combined with Conax Chipset
Pairing is an effective deterrent against pirates
because it allows you to determine the source of
illegal redistribution of live content straightaway.
All you need to do is look at the screen.
We embed a unique subscriber identification
code as a fingerprint at chipset level in the video
stream in order to identify the source device. If live
content is being streamed illegally, the code shows
on the screen. You can then shut down the source
device immediately. Meanwhile the fingerprint
gives you incontrovertible evidence in order to take
action against the perpetrator.
In some countries, fingerprinting is mandated
by law. Many content owners also insist on
fingerprinting technology.
Conax Fingerprinting:
• Deters pirates from redistributing live content
• Identifies the source of illegal redistribution
• Furnishes incontrovertible evidence in legal
actions
Watermarking – securing stored content
Conax Watermarking identifies subscribers who
illegally copy and redistribute stored content.
It works by integrating the subscriber’s identity
in the video content as a digital watermark.
Using Conax Watermarking, you can limit viewing
to devices that are embedded with a watermark.
The watermark is invisible to viewers, but easy to
detect for the operator and available as proof in a
court of law.
Conax Watermarking:
• Deters pirates from redistributing stored content
• Identifies the source of illegal redistribution
• Limits viewing to watermark-embedded devices
• Furnishes incontrovertible evidence in legal
actions
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