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On a pink background, a padlock overlaid on a screenshot of a video streaming platform.

Published on July 11, 2024 (7 months ago)

Introducing DRM: The latest tool in protecting your content on Mux

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff7 min readProductStream security

DRM is now in beta for Mux Video. Learn about the newest tool in stream protection offered by Mux and how you can join the beta waitlist.

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Published on June 27, 2024 (8 months ago)

Being a provider in a pirate’s world, or: how to not get your service blocked by an entire country

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford6 min readVideo educationStream security

From content creators to infrastructure providers, learn about the impact of piracy across the world of streaming video.

A padlock overlaid on a screenshot of a video streaming platform.

Published on June 18, 2024 (8 months ago)

What is DRM?

Phil Cluff
Victoria Nemiah
By Phil and Victoria12 min readVideo education & ProductStream security

Explore the basics of DRM (Digital Rights Management) and how it protects video content from piracy. Learn when to use DRM and the tradeoffs involved.

video player with lock icon in the center

Published on May 1, 2024 (10 months ago)

If someone can watch it, they can steal it: securing video content on the internet

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri16 min readEngineeringStream security

Understand how attackers steal video content and what you can do to prevent downloading, unauthorized playback, screen recording with signed URLs and DRM

Published on April 13, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

We glued together content moderation to stop soccer pirates and saved $750k

Mark Franceschini
By Mark Franceschini8 min readEngineeringStream security

If you had asked me two years ago which sport a video startup needs to be most worried about, I would have said American football or basketball. My US-centric mind would never have considered that socc...

Referrer validation

Published on December 20, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

Introducing Playback Restrictions with Referrer Validation

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich2 min readProductStream security

Introducing a new set of capabilities to prevent the unauthorized playback of video.

Securing Video Content with Signed URLs

Published on May 10, 2018 (almost 7 years ago)

Securing Video Content with Signed URLs

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder7 min readProductStream security

“Our video streams have been hacked.” That was the rumour floating around the office of my past employer in February 2008. I was a software engineer working on the video encoding pipeline for a mobile...