CTA Wave – the Web Application Video Ecosystem Project arm of the US Consumer Technology Association – has a new working group hot off the press, tasked with stamping out the prolific piracy trend of CDN leeching. Immediately, the working group’s anti-CDN leeching groundwork – presented by Synamedia executives at Mile High Video (MHV) in Denver – has proven controversial. The project aims to circumvent vulnerabilities in DRM at the CDN level by developing a standardized CDN token format coined Common Access Token (CAT), but there comes a potentially significant caveat to quality of experience (QoE). Complexities in the development of products to thwart the exploitation of CDN tokens, coupled with the scale at which pirates have manipulated DRM weaknesses,…