An excellent article from Arxan Technologies about the state of piracy within digital media :-
State
of Digital Media Piracy (Infographic)
It’s no secret that large amounts of music listeners
are ditching the price tag of their favorite music and are instead downloading
pirated versions of them for free. So, what’s this costing the digital media industry
as a whole? And how are these pirated versions being made available in the
first place?
Software security company, Arxan Technologies, just recently released
their 2015 State of Application Security report, which answers these questions
and more. The report found the root cause for the recent rise of piracy was
contributed to poorly protected applications and a rapidly evolving ecosystem
for pirated releases. Furthermore, they discovered that very few applications
are deployed with protected binary code. This means a hacker can directly
access unprotected binary code, analyze and reverse-engineer it back to source
code. With the revealed source code, hackers or pirates can quite easily copy,
modify and redistribute digital media releases.
Jeff Bedser, CEO of iThreat Cyber Group
says “The best thing content owners can do is continually monitor the
marketplace and equip themselves with intelligence tools and leverage data and application
protection techniques to fight piracy head on.”
The
infographic below highlights key findings from the Arxan’s 2015 State of
Application Security report.
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