Scripps Expands Channel Piracy Protection

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

First U.S. outlet to join IBCAP, the global anti-piracy coalition

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IBCAP will provide anti-piracy protections to Scripps's multicast networks. (Image credit: Scripps Networks)

The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) has signed on its first U.S. client, E.W. Scripps.

IBCAP will start providing anti-piracy protection to Scripps’s suite of channels comprising Bounce, Bounce XL, Court TV, Defy, Grit, Grit Xtra, Ion, Ion Mystery, Ion Plus, Laff, Newsy and True Real.

IBCAP monitors channels offered over set-tops to shut down unauthorized use of their clients’ content.

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Scripps said it already has “robust” content protections and will be expanding those.

“By joining IBCAP, we are enhancing our content protection strategy by leveraging IBCAP's lab and know-how to shut down unauthorized providers of our content,” Dave Giles, senior VP and deputy general counsel for Scripps, said in a statement.

Giles added that the company is particularly interested in protection from multicultural-focused pirate services. ▪️

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.