It has been around a few years in academia but the neologism watercasting was new to IBC this year reflecting how another product of security research has come of age to solve a real-world problem. It comes at a time when demand for watermarking is growing across the video ecosystem driven now by owners of premium live sports content as well as from the traditional quarters of the big studios spearheaded by MovieLabs. A related theme was that now watermarking is being more widely implemented and proving successful in disrupting content piracy it has naturally come under attack itself. Given that watermarks only pinpoint sources of infringing content when they have been detected, such attacks tend to target the recovery…