Streaming piracy remains one of the most urgent and costly challenges facing the video industry today. At SMConnect 2025, BuyDRM CEO Christopher Levy sat down with Tim Siglin to share an in-depth market update on the state of piracy and how top streaming brands are fighting back.
While password-sharing crackdowns by Netflix and others dominated headlines in early 2024, the broader issue of streaming piracy—and the massive scale of pirated content consumption—has been largely overlooked.
So, what’s driving piracy today? Is it simply the rising cost of legitimate services? How are pirates stealing live streams and on-demand content? What is it costing the industry? And how effective are technologies like DRM in curbing it?
Christopher Levy tackles these questions and more in this insightful discussion.
🎥 Watch the full interview below.
A partial transcript of the discussion can be found here.
