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Protect content and subscription revenue

Streaming, news, and learning products lose margin to password sharing, credential resale, and automated scraping. LRDefender helps you distinguish households from account farms, enforce entitlements fairly, and keep bots from vacuuming your catalog — without turning every subscriber into a support ticket.

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78%

Revenue recovery

Account sharing

Detected

Paywall

Enforced

Scraping

Blocked

* Based on internal testing. Results may vary.

The Problem

Password sharing and bots erode the subscription model

Shared credentials and leaked logins inflate concurrent streams and article views while paying subscribers subsidize freeloaders. Scrapers and headless clients bypass front-end paywalls and hammer APIs — leaking content to competitors and degrading experience for real readers and viewers.

Geographic and concurrent-stream limits are easy to spoof when IP is your only lever.
Family plans and goodwill policies make blunt account bans politically risky without strong device context.
Scrapers rotate IPs and browsers; rate limits alone punish CDNs and legitimate API partners.
Product and marketing teams need analytics that separate real engagement from automated pulls.

The Solution

Device-first entitlements with network-level backup

LR Trace anchors sessions to stable devices so you can model households and outliers; LR Shield adds network and reputation signals; LR Insight turns the data into cohorts and investigations your growth team can trust.

Smarter sharing policies

See when multiple distant streams or readers share one account — and nudge upgrades, extra seats, or verification instead of blanket blocks.

Stop scraping at the edge

Combine automation signals with device stability to throttle headless pulls, API abuse, and mirror sites that resell your content.

Paywall integrity

Reduce bypass via incognito swaps and disposable browsers by binding entitlement checks to hardware-grade fingerprints.

Revenue and engagement you can explain

Feed LR Insight so finance and product see which growth is real — and which campaigns attracted bots or credential resale.

How It Works

Three steps to protection

1

Instrument playback and reading surfaces

Add LRDefender to web, mobile, and TV-web flows where tokens are issued and content is requested.

2

Build a household and risk model

LR Trace clusters devices; LR Shield flags VPNs, proxies, and hostile networks; policies decide nudges vs. hard blocks.

3

Iterate with visible analytics

Use LR Insight to tune limits, pricing tests, and campaigns with confidence scores and trend lines your teams can act on.

Products Used

78%

Estimated ARPU lift from better entitlement enforcement

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We moved from arguing about IP rules to a device-aware view of households. Upsell prompts replaced hard blocks — and churn from false positives dropped.

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Representative outcomes based on composite data; not a verbatim customer testimonial.

Defend your content economics without punishing fans

Learn how LRDefender helps media teams balance growth, piracy resistance, and subscriber experience on one platform.

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