The Future of DRM and Content Protection: Decentralized Leak Detection
- On 2019-02-15
Custos has proven blockchain technology’s ability to revolutionize Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Content Protection.
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How Movie Piracy Works—and How to Use Blockchain to Prevent it
- On 2019-02-14
Depending on what market you are in, between 20% and 60% of screener copies (early release copies of movies) are leaked. We've taken movie piracy down to zero in every market we have entered, all with the power of the blockchain.
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3 Tactics to You Can Use to Fight Film Piracy (and Why they Won’t Work)
- On 2019-02-14
While film piracy has evolved and diversified over time, the approaches to combating piracy have remained fairly stagnant.
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Two Tactics to Help You Minimise Profit Loss After a Pre-Release Screener Leak
- On 2018-05-22
This post was originally published on Medium, by Custos Tech’s Lead Content Protection Consultant, Jon Roth. Iarla Flynn, Head of Public Policy at Google, once famously said that “online piracy is primarily an availability and a pricing problem.” Although there are myriad complex issues influencing the potential (read: probable) piracy of a movie, this axiom remains the essential issue — people decide to pirate movies when they […]
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What to Do When Your Movie is Pirated
- On 2018-05-08
This post was originally published on Medium, by Custos Tech’s Lead Content Protection Consultant, Jon Roth. Pop quiz: How much money do you stand to lose if your feature film lands up on Pirate Bay before its scheduled release date? (a) None, or, (b) Nearly 20% of your total revenue? If you chose (a), you’re likely under […]
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How using Screener Copy, powered by Custos, is helping filmmakers and distributors get to profit faster
- On 2018-04-26
The movie industry has a piracy problem. Almost 60% of movies are leaked before they’ve been in the cinema less than two weeks. What’s worse: pre-release piracy, according to research from Carnegie Mellon University, reduces the lifetime profit of the pirated film by 19%, on average. In an industry where second chances are scarce, […]
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From 1 to 100 000: The Custos Mission to Protect Filmmakers all Over the World
- On 2018-04-18
This post was originally published on Medium, by Custos Tech’s COO, Fred Lutz. In early 2016, we launched the first version of the online video distribution and anti-piracy product that is now called Screener Copy. We needed a way to demonstrate the blockchain tracking technology that we developed at Stellenbosch University. The first version of […]
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Five filmmaking blogs you should bookmark immediately
- On 2017-12-05
They say the school of life offers the best education there is, but not every young filmmaker can be on-set all the time to learn the tricks of the trade. Blogs are the next best thing.
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The do’s and don’ts for submitting your film to festivals
- On 2017-11-21
If you’re a young or first-time filmmaker, there’s probably no better way to get exposure for your project (and for yourself!) than having your film screened at a big film festival.
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Can ebook piracy be prevented (or even just managed)?
- On 2017-11-05
The recent blockbuster success of South African investigative journalist Jacques Pauw’s explosive book, The President’s Keepers, has put book piracy in the spotlight again.
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