Blockchain Anti-Piracy Startup to Track Stolen Content Globally
A South African start up has come up with a new way to use Bitcoin and its blockchain technology to provide media owners with a means to keep recipients from redistributing copyrighted content. How it works. Custos Media Technologies’ “tracking technology” enables copies of uploaded media to have imperceptible watermarks that go with a bounty - a Bitcoin private key - which can be claimed by anyone who uses a free tool. The bounty can be claimed anonymously from anywhere but once. It will appear on the blockchain within seconds of being claimed. When that happens, it will alert the client....
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Custos Media Technologies, a South African bitcoin blockchain-based startup that has developed the means to identify and track illegal file-sharing and pirates through the bitcoin blockchain, has received a new cash injection of over $400,000. South African startup Custos Media Technologies, a company that uses the bitcoin blockchain to combat media piracy has reached an agreement with the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) that will see funding of 5.9 million Rand (approx. $400,000) gained by the startup over the next two years. A Bitcoin Reward for Downloaders? The technology, seen as a....
According to the latest Theatrical Market Statistics report released by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), global box office revenues reached $38.3 billion in 2015, up 5 percent from 2014. But Chris Dodd, chief of the MPAA, said that if the issue of piracy could be tackled it would add a healthy $1.5 billion more to the movie industry’s bottom line. But currently available piracy detection technologies are ineffective in tackling digital media piracy because most illegal downloads happen on peer-to-peer networks. Custos Media Technologies, a startup based in Stellenbosch,....
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