Applying DRM Techniques to Video on the Internet: Characterizing Problems and Solutions

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE J
Volume: 111, No. 4, pp. 154–158
Abstract: Digital distribution of media files via the public internet presents myriad legal, technological, sociological, economic, and moral implications. The digital music debacle begs the question: Is there a workable security solution tailored to the digital distribution paradigm? The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has done little to promote a sensible and practical examination of the hot-button issue of digital rights management (DRM). In the post-Napster era, all major Hollywood studios are moving toward an internet protocol (IP)-based video-on-demand solution, and Vidius Inc. estimates 450,000 to 580,000 downloads of unprotected full-length films are transferred over the internet daily. The urgent need for a reasonable and workable approach to digital video security is underscored at every turn. An intelligent approach to digital rights management on the internet should address business and technological issues though a software-based, flexible, rapid-response security solution.
Publication Date: 2002-04-01
DOI: 10.5594/J11566
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J11566
Author(s): Eric GrabDivXNetworks, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.
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Eric Grab is the director of engineering for DivXNetworks, Inc. He has helped various commercial and government organizations determine how cutting-edge software technology can create revenue streams and cost-saving services. Grab worked with some of the first software-based DRM systems and video. He subsequently researched and led implementation on the DivXNetworks Open Video System (OVS). The OVS is the first commercially available system that securely rents and delivers DVD-like quality MPEG-4 video over the internet. Grab earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in computer science from San Diego State University.
Copyright: © 2002 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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1. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), Oct. 1998 , Public Law 105–304. EXTERNAL
2. Pfleeger , Security in Computing , Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-798943-1, 1989 . EXTERNAL

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