While culturally famous, the MENA region has become an infamous hub for OTT video content piracy. Several industry faces, speaking during the online BroadcastPro MENA OTT event this week, wanted to set the record straight on what exactly is required to tackle content pirates in this part of the world. We are conscious of sounding like a broken record, but a repeat theme of piracy discussions is a rallying cry for cross-industry collaboration as the single most important way of minimizing revenue losses at the hands of illicit sources of content, more so than any technology that money can buy. Such collaboration has thrown up challenges unique to MENA, although we learned that progress is being made, slowly but surely.…