Cops and (Content) Robbers: Using Policing Methodology to Disrupt Streaming Pirates

Description

Streaming Piracy remains a perennial problem for content rights holders and licensees. It is not uncommon for streaming pirates to accumulate great wealth, presenting as viable competitors to legitimate broadcasters and rights holders. Technological measures such as Watermarking, IP Blocking and Payment Disruption strategies mean that protective and disruptive responses are evolving. However, the option also exists to “go to source” and identify the facilitators of Illicit Streaming Services – legitimate as well as illegitimate – and hold these entities accountable.  

Using criminal intelligence theory and investigative tradecraft (OSINT), and collaborating with law enforcement agencies, digital platforms and infrastructure providers, it is possible to build evidential cases and draw the pirates out of the shadows, making such solutions a more permanent one. Kelly will provide an overview of the streaming piracy landscape, and demonstrate the intricate techniques Open Source Intelligence Analysts use to understand threat actors’ methodology and establish their identities. Case studies will describe those occasions where she has genuinely “caught the bad guys”! 

Takeaways: 

• You don’t need to be technically-advanced to excel in the streaming industry – just aware. 

• Many organisations employ investigators from Cybersecurity and Intelligence backgrounds as in-house ‘police departments’. These are designed to understand the threats to streaming businesses, inform decision-making, and disrupt the (often extremely profitable!) criminal businesses. 

• Females are particularly well represented in the Intelligence field (analytically minded?) 

Speakers

Kelly Pereira

Senior Service Delivery Manager , Irdeto

Kelly Pereira is a Senior Service Delivery Manager at Irdeto, based in the Netherlands. With a career spanning over two decades, Kelly began in Criminal Intelligence Analysis for South Wales Police in the UK, working at both local, then regional levels on organized crime investigations. In 2011, Kelly transitioned to the private sector, entering the field of Digital Content Protection, where she has since built an impressive casework track record over 14 years.

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