TheDRMBlog | anti-piracy

Art of the Steal: The State and Cost of Streaming Piracy in 2025

By Christopher Levy

June 02, 2025

DRM , anti-piracy , SMConnect

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...

Requests Per Second: The Key Metric to Scaling with DRM

By Gabe Elton

February 08, 2023

DRM , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy

As a CTO, systems architect, and systems engineer, along with a host of other titles and roles in the streaming space – you have done everything right to ensure that your project gets off on the right foot. Your ingress points are solid, your...

Five Important Considerations When Choosing a DRM Vendor

By Gabe Elton

January 27, 2022

DRM , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy , Adding DRM

When faced with a decision of what DRM vendor to choose, the landscape can prove to be a bit cloudy. While there aren’t many companies to choose from, there are several important things that need to be considered.

Deploying DRM Workflows with FFmpeg

By Romans K.

January 12, 2022

DRM , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy , FFMpeg , Bento 4 , Shaka Player , Adding DRM

When people come to us asking for DRM integration advice, they usually already have a video workflow that includes content encoding and packaging. Customers mostly use different 3rd party vendors that are already integrated with BuyDRM like Wowza,...

The Case for Robust Video Watermarking with DRM

By Christopher Levy

December 07, 2021

DRM , watermarking , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy

In this blog, we will be looking at video watermarking and answering some important questions. What is it? How is it done? What do I need to look for in a watermarking solution? How is it used to detect piracy?

Using DRM and Watermarking to Prevent Video Piracy

By Roman K.

November 18, 2021

DRM , watermarking , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy

It is important for streaming services to ensure that their assets are protected and don't fall into the hands of illegal re-streamers or on Torrent websites. With the global COVID-19 pandemic, there is a rise in video viewership and...

Every Stream Unique: The Rise of Watermarking with DRM for OTT Streaming

By Christopher Levy

November 02, 2021

DRM , watermarking , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy , video.js , forensic watermarking

Watermarking in conjunction with the use of DRM for OTT streaming is now considered the best practice for securing high-value video content. During Video Security Summit (hosted by Piracy Monitor), Christopher Levy, CEO & Founder at BuyDRM discussed...

Using DRM with video.js

By Mark Zeldes

October 04, 2021

DRM , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy , video.js

Video.js is a powerful open-source web video player. It supports HTML5 video and most modern streaming formats on both desktop and mobile devices. In this blog post, we cover how to set up DRM with video.js and provide samples of how to set up...