To trust that Android smartphones and many other devices are secure from piracy, these popular streaming services make use of Google’s Widevine DRM platform. As one of the industry’s oldest DRM ...

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Xstream, premium provider of end-to-end video management solution and related services, has announced that Pathé Thuis, one of Holland’s leading online video-on-demand services, taps Xstream to ...

A bug in the popular anti-piracy framework allows a side-channel attack on premium content. Researchers have used a proof-of-concept (PoC) side-channel attack to download an unencrypted raw file for ...

French OTT multimedia software company Squadeo has announced the launch of its Widevine DRM service across mobiles, tablets, PCs and Macs. The company says the service will allow video service ...

There is a new bug affecting Pixel owners. The new Pixel Widevine bug affects Netflix quality for owners of Google’s smartphones. According to Android Police, Google is working on a fix though. Some ...

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MADRID--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NexStreaming (KOSDAQ:139670) announced today that the leading multiscreen player, NexPlayer SDK, is now supporting also DASH with Widevine DRM. From now on, video service ...

Xiaomi’s Pocophone F1 has been the talk of the town recently with its flagship-tier specs but crazy low price of just $300. However, when you have a price that low, there are sure to be some omissions ...

Netflix and many other video streaming apps use Google-owned Widevine DRM to ensure content isn’t easily pirated on Android. An issue for the past few months sees some Google Pixel phones unable to ...

In the present day scenario, it is pretty evident that streaming services are the new-age televisions for a lot of people. This is mainly because a lot of the content that was only available on the ...

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