TPN, the Trusted Partner Network, was established in 2018 to guard against any loss of pre-released content through piracy. But unfortunately, forward planning didn’t fully recognize the extent of how quickly content would move from secure premises to virtual sites. Now TPN has plugged that gap and in effect revamped their service to TPN+, which now covers both physical and virtual sites. What does the new service offer content owners? Eight of the biggest content owners are founding members of TPN, including Universal, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Netflix, Amazon Studios and Apple. Though joining TPN and TPN+ is completely voluntary, all owners of content are encouraged to do so. The new service, comes with revised best practices for site, cloud and software application security. Ever since the pandemic started, the drive to remote working has resulted in the virtualization of the entire production and post-production chain but that comes with certain dangers. TPN wants to mitigate against this. It has been estimated that thousands of companies, from ideas generation to distribution, could be part of the new network and in effect, all of these companies need to be assessed to serve content owners. Frame.io and Adobe Although Adobe and Frame.io have been part of TPN since its inception back in 2018, they have also become early adopters of the new TPN+. SaaS-based cloud providers and their apps have come under increasing scrutiny from content owners to present as secure a service as possible. TPN+ is looking to offer that with...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 17 May, 2023