Verimatrix wanted to make one thing abundantly clear following the launch of its Secure Delivery Platform, that this does not signal intent from the US anti-piracy expert to become a “proper” platform player. By this, we mean the type of video platform that caters for an expansive suite of tools and services with so many partner integration options that it risks becoming a convoluted marketplace. Delusions of platform expansion grandeur are not clouding the Verimatrix cloud-based content protection push, as alluded to by Verimatrix’s SVP of Global Marketing, Jon Samsel, alongside Head of Product Management, Martin Bergenwall, who tag-teamed this week’s briefing with Faultline. Abbreviated affectionately as simply “The Platform,” we learned that the self-described “powerful cloud ecosystem” is the…