Keeping Your Content Safe - FACT!

Every time you go to the cinema you will see an advert before the film from the Federation Against Copyright Theft. Or more snappily, FACT.

These adverts warn you about being on the lookout for people trying to record the film from inside the cinema, and not buying pirated DVDs or illegally downloading or streaming films. With piracy costing the UK film industry £500M a year alone - and the UK economy £1.2bn - you can understand why.

The film and TV industries around the world employ some the hardest working and most passionate people around. Frequently going above and beyond the call of duty to get something made, and on lower salaries than they could get elsewhere, just for the sheer love of what they do.

So stealing what they have worked so hard to create is just plain wrong. Just to be clear though, there is much we as an industry can do to give consumers better access to programming they want, when they want it. But thats another blog post.

So, FACT do a great job on reminding us why we shouldnt pirate, and also at stopping those who do, including working with the police to make arrests.

Whats probably less well known is what they do to promote the security of content before it ever hits our screens. During the process of creating a film or TV show, huge amounts of footage is created, with almost every second of it being vital to the vision of those who are making it. This team needs the time to work on it, and any director or producer will confirm that they hate anyone seeing their creation before they are happy with it. Equally importantly, millions of dollars are riding on the success of that vision, and the excitement that an audience has on seeing it for the first time.

So any leaks of the content during this process are a disaster for the team creating it, and the investors behind it, and thats before you get to the broadcasters or cinema chains who hope to make money from showing it.

A film or show go through a lot of different phases before they screen - production, editing, sound, grading, duplication, distribution and more. What FACT do is rigorously test the top suppliers in each part of the chain to check that they are completely focused on the security of the footage that passes through their doors.

The list is a short (deliberately so - as its not easy to get on it) but an impressive one, and were proud to say that Aframe has joined it.

So its not just us you should listen to when we talk about how hard we work to keep your content safe. Words like 2048 bit encryption, private fibre networks and top tier datacentres may not mean much to you, but that great big FACT logo on our site should.

Its not just a pass once, keep it for ever kind of thing. We can be randomly audited - and at a bare minimum have to pass each and every year to keep our accreditation, so whether you become a customer now, or next year, you can be sure were working as hard as we can to keep your content safe.

About Aframe Aframes cloud video technology helps people connect and collaborate, making them more productive and improving execution in their video projects.

The ability to access high resolution rushes and production footage from anywhere in the world via a web browser enables companies to save time, money and focus on producing better video.

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