Irdeto’s Andrew Bunten says piracy cannot be fully eradicated

The immediate takeaway is that anti-piracy programs should be judged on risk reduction, not on whether they can eliminate every illicit stream. Bunten’s point ties content protection directly to operator economics: piracy can drain CDN capacity and threaten the return on rights fees, so the response has to balance enforcement with viewer experience. That framework matters across the streaming stack because the article pairs technical controls like DRM and forensic watermarking with international law-enforcement coordination. The next concrete signal to watch is whether operators keep pairing those tools in live-stream workflows, especially where CDN load and watermark-based tracing intersect.