A new name in the content protection space has been thrust onto the global streaming radar, with Israel-based vendor Videocites landing a life-changing contract with sports streamer DAZN. Videocites is the latest in a medley of security technologies employed by DAZN in recent years to protect its swelling chest of sports rights. The more DAZN throws at the problem, the more it suggests that the fight is futile, but in Videocites it could have found a crucial piece of the anti-piracy puzzle. Specializing as a social media content detection firm, Videocites has been deployed by DAZN to help combat the proliferation of content pirate activity on social platforms like Twitter. Videocites’ AI-based content recognition algorithms have been trained to detect…