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Chapter 686 The Piracy Problem
Actually [Penguin Group] is still watching.

What to look at?
Let's see how much the pirated version will hit [Deep Space City].

True.

[Deep Space City] is currently in full swing, but this is based on the absence of piracy.

If there is no piracy, several parent video giants in China are confident that their revenue will increase to a higher level.

But piracy has seriously eroded their interests.

Although video sites have also used many methods to prevent piracy, but from the current point of view, the effect is still very bad.

According to the usual process, after the material of a film is completed, it will be handed over from the operator to the technician and finally sent to the colorist for color correction. The person who made the secret key was released.

If someone wants to steal the film, theoretically speaking, they can start from any of the above links, especially the risk of transmission between the two links is higher.

In fact, in order to protect assets, the producer will sign a non-disclosure agreement with the cooperative companies in each of the above links, specifying the responsible person and the amount of compensation.In order to facilitate subsequent investigations, the film studios often make some hidden small marks on different versions, such as small dots or small five-pointed stars in the corners.

However, there are still many loopholes in this seemingly rigorous industrial system. For example, many movie theater managers are guarding against themselves, unlocking the copied key, and then selling the pirated files to pirates, or synchronously releasing movie discs from overseas. copy in.

Then came the internet age.

Piracy technology has made great progress again, and [Video Aggregation Website] has appeared.

[Video Aggregation Website] is to gather videos from different video websites into one website.

Video aggregation often adopts methods such as deep linking and hotlinking to gather video works from major mainstream video websites into one website or APP, and provide on-demand services while satisfying users' playback needs.Most aggregation platforms will also change the content of the original video works, such as removing watermarks, removing advertisements, etc., and some also add their own content, such as inserting third-party advertisements on their own platforms.

Although the major video sites have been taking various methods to stop or reduce this piracy.

For example, many streaming media sites adopt a digital content copyright protection technology called DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Even if users can download movies from clients on these streaming media platforms, because DRM will have encrypted the files into a special format, users cannot open them with other players, so they cannot be used for pirated distribution.

Digression, so you will find that once the account expires, you will not be able to click to watch the movie you downloaded from [Penguin Video], which is also the reason.

Therefore, many people turned around and went to [video aggregation websites] such as Movie Paradise.

Widevine is the most commonly used DRM technology on video sites and the most difficult to crack.

Widevine adopts the L3 protection level, general hacker attacks can only crack the Widevine L3 stream, and get only grainy low-quality video and low-fidelity audio, while the encryption level of the L2 and L1 streams where the high-definition video and audio reside is much higher .

Widevine is currently used by many large streaming media platforms and content providers.

But the Tao is one foot tall, and the devil is one foot tall.

Hackers from the International Piracy Alliance have developed a tool that can crack the DRM technology of Widevine. The cracking speed is also very fast. Generally, it only takes a few minutes to crack a 1080P movie. The cracked version is usually better than the original file. About 30% smaller.

These tools can automatically download content on streaming media platforms through algorithms, crack it, and then package and upload it to related websites. The whole process does not require manual participation.

This makes piracy impossible to prevent.

Many people think that foreign countries pay attention to copyright, and there is no piracy in foreign countries, or there is very little piracy.

Consumers are willing to pay for high-quality content.

Actually?

In 2021, video piracy in one country will cost pay TV and OTT providers $91 billion in lost revenue.And it is estimated that by 2024, this figure will increase to 125 billion US dollars, with a growth rate of 38%.

According to the available data, 27% of broadband users in a certain country are engaged in some form of piracy or account sharing.

This breaks another filter.

Maybe you think that there is no piracy and high payment rate, but there is no such opportunity.

However, the rampant piracy will seriously hit the enthusiasm of creators, which may lead to fewer and fewer good movies in the future. If things go on like this, bad money will drive out good money, which is a lose-lose outcome.

But how can selfish people pay attention to this.

Even if you know that piracy will eventually hit the original creation, but under the temptation of profit, you will still do what you should do.

If there is no piracy, it is not that the pirates have found out with conscience, but that the pirates think that your book has no pirated value.

There was such a saying in the Internet circle before.

I am most afraid of your novel appearing in Biqu Pavilion.

I am also most afraid that Biquge doesn't even have your novels.

That's the reason.

It doesn't even have the value of piracy, which is too much of a blow to the confidence of online writers.

Back to the topic.

The animation video of [Deep Space City] is so popular now.

There is a strong demand for it in the market.

Where there is demand, there is interest.

If there is interest, pirates will have motivation.

As a result, pirates flocked to pirate the two hundred animation videos of [Deep Space City].

They had expected that the anti-piracy technology of the video website developed by [Super Group] would definitely not be simple.

But they didn't expect it to be so difficult.

Even with a cracking tool developed by a hacker from a certain country, it cannot be cracked.

In the end, I can only use a stupid method-recording the screen!
This is indeed a stupid method, but it is indeed a very unsolvable method, which is a little less efficient.

Soon, some links to pirated videos of the popular anime of [Deep Space City] appeared on the market.

[City of Deep Space] It takes dozens of yuan to watch the video, and the pirated link only sells for 3 yuan!
Only sell for 3 yuan!
Only sell for 3 yuan!
Then those 【Video Aggregation Sites】 also put these pirated animation videos on the shelves one after another.

The impact on [Deep Space City] is direct and serious.

The traffic and payment rate of [Deep Space City] immediately showed a diving decline.

This naturally attracted the attention of [Deep Space City]. After some investigation, the problem of piracy was discovered.

There are free pirated versions to watch, and most viewers must watch it for free.

But [City of Deep Space] does not accept it, and the creators of web articles behind [City of Deep Space] do not accept it.

Just don't accept it, but how easy is it to deal with the piracy problem?

The servers of many pirated websites are set up in a certain country. It is not easy to clear them up, and it takes time and effort, but the other party can easily make a comeback.

This deeply troubled the managers of [Deep Space City].

(Sorry, there is only one update tonight. It's been a mess recently, and I really don't have the idea to write more today.)
(End of this chapter)