Giving sailors guns seems like an obvious solution. But this would face major resistance from shipping companies, who dont want to deal with the added security risks, costs, and legal liability that all follow from having armed security on board their cargo ships. There are many legal concerns involved here, not least of which is the prospect of having the ship impounded and the crew arrested and charged for firing on an innocent vessel.
Insurance costs would escalate considerably if armed guards were placed on ships. And until shipping companies would rather insure against pirates than pay their ransoms as is the case now , this option is simply not on the table. Take the war to the pirate lairs on shore. We know where the pirates strongholds are — in several coastal villages in northeastern Somalia. Some are calling for the Obama administration to create disincentives for the pirates by bombing their land bases.
This is very appealing as an offensive rather than defensive approach to the piracy plague, and it is particularly attractive to those who are trying to reshape the low risk, high reward calculus that drives piracy today.
Despite its theoretical appeal, bombing would be a terrible idea in practice. In the first place, airstrikes on the pirates lairs are unlikely to succeed; the pirates will simply reorganize, scatter into new locations, and return to work. Second, this tactic puts at severe risk the more than crew members none of whom are American — currently held for ransom in Somalia. Any U. Third, land strikes on these villages will almost certainly result in civilian casualties among the many villagers living there.
No doubt Somalis will come up with a figure different from our own. But the strongest argument against taking the war on shore is that the United States has more important strategic interests in Somalia than piracy. At present, Washington is backing a unity government, led by moderate Islamists, in a delicate political situation in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Several years of fierce anti-Americanism and radicalism have subsided in Somalia for now , precisely because the U.
The dangerous jihadi movement, al-Shabaab, has lost its momentum and, for the first time since , is on the defensive. This is all very good news — but it could immediately be overturned if the United States starts plinking the pirates. Somalis react fiercely to foreigners attacking their own, especially on Somali soil. They do not share the view that the pirates are criminals. In fact, many Somalis see the pirates as a coast guard protecting their shores from illegal foreign fishing. A military response on shore risks enflaming anti-Americanism in Somalia again, playing right into the hands of al-Shabaab and its external patron, al Qaeda.
Hence an on-shore military approach to piracy runs the strong risk of setting back broader U. Combating terrorism and extremism is of much greater importance and needs to be privileged over attempts to halt the pirates. Attack the commanding heights of piracy by going after the financiers, not the pirates. A flood of new streaming competition has highlighted an ironic flip side to this equation. Some early data suggests that as more and more broadcasters and streaming operators come to market often hiding their own content behind exclusive paywalls this confusion and high cost of subscribing to numerous services just to access your favorite content may risk driving users back to piracy.
That said, the lesson being taught by countless international studies remains the same. If the entertainment industry truly wants users to stop pirating, its best option is to see piracy as a competitor—then offer a low-priced, high-quality alternative.
Sign In Create Account. Even if they had taken a screenshot of the video, the image will be blacked out [viii]. Watermarking solutions can be used to deter and reduce digital piracy. A visible watermark helps to deter piracy, whereas an invisible watermark can help hinder pirate distribution.
Read: Video Watermarking and the Battle against Piracy. An invisible watermark embeds unique data in a media file such as a video, which cannot be seen by the naked eye but can be easily identified by the watermarking solutions detection system. Identical versions of the same piece of content can each be embedded with a unique watermark. This allows content owners to identify which specific piece of content was leaked and they can then trace the leak back to the person responsible.
Fingerprinting allows content owners to easily determine if their content has been illegally uploaded to websites such as YouTube. It is worth noting that fingerprinting is not the same as watermarking.
Unlike watermarking which involves inserting identifiable marks into the content, fingerprinting involves the process of analysing the video and audio to create a digital fingerprint that is unique to that specific piece of content. Website blocking is another popular tool used for combating digital piracy. There are three main methods for website blocking: Internet Protocol address blocking, Domain Name Server blocking and Uniform Resource Locator blocking.
A study by the researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Chapman University found website blocking to be quite an effective way of combatting digital piracy. They analysed the impact of a court order in that had ISPs block access to 53 specific websites in the United Kingdom.
The report concluded that website blocking did in fact cause a decrease in digital piracy and an increase in new paid subscriptions as the use of legal streaming websites rose from 7 to 12 percent [ix].
Rights owners and distributors also employ piracy countermeasures to interrupt and take down pirated content.
These vary from traditional take-down notices to custom real-time messages. TV service providers and operators can identify which consumers are watching illegal streams and motivate them to switch to legal services. These notices of copyright infringements allow the consumers to become aware that they alone are responsible for their actions online. Copyright infringement notices have proven to be quite effective and are used by many major Internet Service Providers ISPs in partnership with copyright holders.
Legal strategies and anti-piracy investigations include the prosecution of individuals and companies that upload and download pirated content. Anti-piracy investigations enable content owners to identify where and how content is being leaked and provide a better understanding of the risks an organisation is vulnerable to and their potential scale. Once the scale of the illegal distribution of content has been determined, steps can then be taken to rectify this, and a strategy can be defined that can help businesses and operational processes adapt to the piracy threats faced.
Overall, 14 locations were raided, 5 arrests were made, and authorities were able to shut down an illegal IPTV streaming business, which was allowing access to more than television channels [xi]. Consumer confusion around digital piracy is a serious issue. It can be difficult for the average internet user to differentiate between illegal and legal content with the many streaming services available. While a user may know that downloading a full-length movie from a P2P network is illegal, most internet users would assume that an online video streaming website, especially one with a membership fee, is providing legal content.
Educating the public on the impact of digital piracy is vital, as well as teaching consumers how to differentiate between legitimate and illegal content platforms. However, perhaps the most effective way to dealing with digital piracy is customer experience and pricing, in addition to the content library. Giving users a simple, easy-to-use interface with no buffering and excellent video quality may deter viewers away from poor quality pirate platforms and content copies.
If companies provide great service at an attractive price-point, consumers may be less compelled by piracy routes.
It is a bummer to put in all this effort and then your content gets downloaded for free. In some cases, users share their credentials with others and a single account is used for multiple access. In essence, video piracy happens in two ways. That is through credential sharing and video downloading. Piracy of any kind, whether it is movie piracy or piracy of eLearning content hurts revenue. Given a choice, anyone would choose not to pay for something which they get for free. You might as well take extra effort to curb with this.
Users often buy a single account, share it with friends and family without paying for extra bandwidth or users. Also, at times with strangers to swap the different subscribed services.
There are several tools available online, which makes it easy for users to download a video. By just entering the URL in the tool, they can easily download your video. And from there on it can easily get into all the popular pirate resources. Pirates take advantage of this fact, they put in efforts to find the encryption key. With the key, pirates can easily convert encrypted file back to raw file.
Pirates at times also target the storage platform used by the platform to get access to the content before it is even released. Capturing and redistribution of live streaming and tv channels has been one of the major forms of video piracy.
Live sports are one of the live events which have been pirated massively. From the above-mentioned studies and reports, it can be clearly seen and concluded that video piracy and in particular, TV or Movie piracy, still remains a serious issue globally. With a lot of research and studies now available, we are getting to understand the wider impact of this video piracy problem.
The American movie and TV production and distribution industry support over 2. A report by Blackburn, Eisenach, and Harrison on the impact of movie piracy on the U.
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