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Erik Hietbrink

Erik is a Technical Product Manager for Watermarking at Irdeto. Erik has more than 17 years experience providing advanced premium content protection solutions and services to the pay media industry and combatting the growing scale and sophistication of online piracy. Most recently, Erik has been working with industry partners to tackle some of the key challenges facing content owners, post-production houses, and content aggregators fighting piracy that originates during the post-production and distribution processes with an easy to deploy, affordable forensic watermarking solution for mezzanine-quality file-based transmission. Based in the Netherlands, Erik holds a master’s degree in Software Engineering from the Radboud University (Netherlands).

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