Next-Gen Video Alliance Challenges Widely-Used Streaming Technology

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The new group‘s initial focus on royalty-free content encryption underscores the members’ objective to assure content producers their delivery systems are “safe.” To obtain programming licensing rights, streaming packagers such as Netflix, Amazon.com and Google (via its YouTube subsidiary) must convince content creators that their systems are sufficiently encrypted. – Gary Arlen, Multichannel News