Broadband/IPTV Content Protection and Digital Rights Management Technology & Content Report – July 2004
Multimedia Research Group, July 2004, Pages: 57
This report discuses the state of the art of Content Protection and Digital Rights Management for IPTV Systems. It discusses the available systems as well as when and why they should be used
Topics 1 Network Environments and Threat Assessments 2 Content Protection 3 Opportunities, Risks, and Recommendations 4 Companies offering IPTV Content Protection Systems
The experience of the music industry with Napster has raised the level of concern over Content Protection. Napster facilitated the free distribution of music across the Internet. The media owners, the record companies, lost control of their content and apparently experienced significant revenue loss as a result.
The movie studios, video networks, and broadcasters are concerned about the same thing happening to them. They already are experiencing a major problem with pirating, with bootleg DVDs appearing on the market even before the studio releases the DVD. The studios want to be sure that distributing their content over IPTV or Cable Video On Demand (VOD) networks does not compromise their content.
