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Miro Pinkas

Information Security Engineer and Analyst

Anti-Piracy at SPPA (Service Provider Platforms and Applications)

Miro Pinkas is a security professional, with more than a decade of experience in anti-piracy and video technology.

His areas of expertise are technical research and new technologies & trends.

Prior to these roles, he worked as an intelligence specialist in operational security, and system engineer in a project delivery group.

Beside his passion for technology, Miro has a degree in civil engineering from The College of Management in Jerusalem.

Miro is proficient in six languages, likes to travel, and enjoys spending quality time with his family.

Articles

August 8, 2017

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SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

“We Love our Pirates” – Crowdfunding Piracy

In the past few years there have been all kinds of interesting crowdfunding projects – namely enlisting the masses to raise funds for new innovative ideas. In fact, this has been recognized as a powerful mechanism for launching new products. One particularly unusual (not to say galling) crowdfunding…

June 7, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Illegal Streaming of Pay TV – Is It a Pirate Treasure Island?

In our previous blog post—on the scope of illegal streaming—we analyzed one of the forums that hosts illegal streaming server offers and concluded that it reaches at least 285,000 viewers. That’s an impressive figure. But what does it mean in financial terms? Or to be more specific, how much are pir…