Five years ago this week… Video infrastructure firm Synamedia made its first acquisition under CEO Paul Segre, buying forensic watermarking specialist ContentArmor to strengthen its anti-piracy business beyond pay TV. Faultline flagged concerns about Synamedia controlling a technology licensed by several rivals, although the company initially promised to honor existing agreements. The acquisition also reflected the growing importance of watermarking for premium UHD streaming, where it had become an essential extension of DRM. Unified Streaming packages C2PA: Dutch video software firm Unified Streaming is rolling out Trusted Media, embedding C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) metadata into live, VoD and virtual-channel streams during the final packaging stage. The metadata can carry publisher identity, source attribution, editorial context and AI…