The COVID-19 worldwide stay-at-home orders have created unprecedented internet changes that continue to shift as the crisis continues. The biggest shift is that enterprise, education, and public WiFi traffic have now...
By Veroljub Mihajlovic, Product Marketing Manager February 25, 2020
As part of Sandvine’s Global Internet Phenomena series, we have released several spotlight reports that examine the popularity and prevalence of video and television piracy around the world, along with the challenges facing content owners globally.
Topics: Piracy, Iptv, Video piracy, Television piracy
By Cam Cullen, VP of Global Marketing September 5, 2019
Last year, I wrote a blog on the increase in file sharing on networks, and it was a tad controversial. There were a few challenges from various angles on this specific statistic that came from reasonable places. First, there had been a lapse in the Phenomena Reports for almost two years and, second, we were now drawing from a vastly different data set...
Topics: File sharing, Piracy
By Cam Cullen, VP of Global Marketing May 7, 2015
The UK courts have issued an injunction instructing service providers to block sites that are offering downloads of the increasingly popular application Popcorn Time. Popcorn time is often called the “Netflix of Piracy”, since it presents the user with a Netflix-like interface and allows them to stream videos using file sharing technology. Popcorn Time,...
Topics: Analytics in motion, Bittorrent, File sharing, Popcorn time, Piracy