Anyone looking through the panel agenda for this year’s SportsPro Madrid Summit would notice one topic was glaringly absent – anti-piracy. The issue, hyper-relevant to live sports, was hushed behind talks of monetization, the advent of D2C streaming, rights fragmentation and non-exclusivity, and even FAST channels for crying out loud. Traditional content security vendors were also notoriously quiet at the event, for which Faultline acquired a last gasp press pass. Representatives from Viaccess-Orca and Irdeto were nonplussed by the omission of anti-piracy from the conference agenda. We argue that content protection is a topic worth mentioning at an event attracting sports rights holders. Perhaps, with SportsPro being an OTT-focused event (formerly called SportsPro OTT Summit), there was an active agenda…