World Content Protection and Digital Rights Management Markets

Frost & Sullivan, March 2007, Pages: 88

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled World Content Protection and Digital Rights Management Markets provides an overview of the enterprise, entertainment and software digital rights management market, factors that will drive and restrain its growth in future along with revenue analysis. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following markets: enterprise DRM, entertainment DRM, and software DRM.

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Booming Digital Media Market Creates Opportunities for Providers of Content Protection and Digital Rights Management Solutions

With digital formats fast phasing out physical records, there has been a boom in the number of alternative channels of distribution for this content. Content owners, distributors, and service providers are all hoping to cash in on this trend by launching various delivery platforms for providing video and music. Among the slew of delivery platforms, the most attractive are Internet protocol television (IPTV), the Internet, and mobile wireless devices. These new channels compel content owners to make certain that content delivery is secured through solutions such as watermarking technology, which helps track and protect the content. Such digital rights management (DRM) solutions also integrate with business models of operators and service providers, aiding greater revenue generation.

Organizations need to guard against security breaches from both internal and external forces. Although IT departments deploy firewalls and virtual private networks (VPNs), they cannot completely plug information leakages due to human error or sabotage. Such breaches can be prevented only through DRM systems. Since DRM systems enable trusted computing, organizations will find them immensely useful in managing and controlling their intellectual property.

Customers Realize the Monetary Value of Deploying DRM Solutions, Increase Uptake

The DRM market has finally come of age as end users increasingly realize the need to protect expensive corporate information or copyrighted works. With corporations realizing the financial implications of information loss and the entertainment industry constantly battling piracy, DRM solutions have begun to make significant inroads into the digital media consumer markets. Video providers are delivering content not only through streaming media but also through other networks such as cable and IPTV. "As the demand for enhanced video services increases along with service providers’ ability to offer their content on devices other than the TV, DRM solutions will witness increased adoption," notes the analyst of this research service.

Most software companies have a higher understanding of the value of security since they already sell some form of technology. Software vendors are supplementing their traditional distribution models of shipping a CD or selling through partners with online distribution channels. "Several software DRM vendors provide hardware based solutions as well protection for electronic transactions," says the analyst.

1. Executive Summary
-1. Market Overview
--1. Introduction
--2. The World Digital Rights Management Market
--3. Market Segmentation
-2. Research Findings
--1. Competitive Analysis
--2. Opportunities and Forecasts
--3. Conclusions

2. Analysis of the World Content Protection and Digital Rights Management Market
-1. An Overview of the World Content Protection and Digital Rights Management Market
--1. Market Overview
--2. Market Engineering Measurement Analysis
-2. Identification of Drivers to Growth and Restraints to Growth for the Digital Rights Management Market
--1. Growth Drivers for the World Digital Rights Management Market
--a. Proliferation of Digital Media Creates the Need to Protect Content from Malicious Use and Piracy
--b. Regulatory Compliance Drives Market towards Adopting DRM
--c. Peer-to-Peer Networks Become Legitimate Distributors of Movies and Music
--d. Delivery of Content Through Competing Channels of Distribution will Spur the Demand for Digital Rights Management Solutions
--e. Increased Interest from Large Brand Names such as Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle Adds Credibility to the Market
--f. Complimentary Markets such as Enterprise Content Management and Digital Asset Management (ECM and DAM) Help Spur Growth Through Channel Partnerships and Complete Content Solutions
--g. Push to Increase Interoperability will Change the Consumer Perception about DRM Solutions
--h. Software Vendors Move Towards Bridging the Gap Between IP Protection and Copy Protection
--i. Decreasing the Movie Release Window to Theatres and Eventually to DVD and On-Demand Creates New Market Opportunity
--2. Restraints to Growth for the World Digital Rights Management Market
--a. Increased Flexibility with Unprotected Content Makes DRM Solutions Unattractive for the Consumer Mass Market
--b. Lack of Knowledge about the Evolution of Encryption to DRM Solutions as an Effective Means to Protect Data Hampers Growth
--c. Lack of Interoperability Slows DRM Acceptance in the Mass Consumer Market
--d. Nascency of the DRM Market Causes Confusion in the Market
--e. DRM Based Restrictions on Content Usage Dissuade Widespread Growth
--f. Monopoly of Content Owners Slows Growth for DRM Deployment
--g. SaaS - a Potential Threat to Software Digital Rights Management
--h. Enormous Growth in Demand for Video Leads to Requirement for Constant Security
--i. Record Labels to Offer Music Without DRM
--j. Patent Issues Around DRM Slows the Development of the Market
--3. Challenges to Growth Faced by the World Digital Rights Management Market
-3. Forecasts and Trend Analysis for the World Digital Rights Management Market
--1. Revenue Forecasts for the World Digital Rights Management Market
--2. Revenue Forecasts for the World Enterprise Digital Rights Management Market
--3. Revenue Forecasts for the World Entertainment Digital Rights Management Market
--4. Revenue Forecasts for the World Software Digital Rights Management Market
--5. Demand Analysis
--6. Market and Technology Trends
--7. Pricing Trends
-4. Competitive Analysis of the World Digital Rights Management Market
--1. Competitive Structure and Analysis of the World Digital Rights Management Market
--2. Market Share Analysis for the World Enterprise Digital Rights Management Market
--3. Market Share Analysis for the World Entertainment Digital Rights Management Market
--4. Market Share Analysis for the World Software Digital Rights Management Market
--5. The Frost & Sullivan Hot Company Watchlist for the Digital Rights Management Market
--6. Product Analysis

List of Figures

Chapter 2

Digital Rights Management Market: Market Drivers Ranked in Order of Impact (World), 2007-2013
Digital Rights Management Market: Market Restraints Ranked in Order of Impact (World), 2007-2013
Digital Rights Management Market: Impact of Industry Challenges (World), 2007-2013
Digital Rights Management Market: Revenue Forecasts (World), 2006-2013
Enterprise Digital Rights Management Market: Revenue Forecasts (World), 2006-2013
Enterprise Digital Rights Management Market: Revenue Forecasts by Geographic Region (World), 2006-2013
Entertainment Digital Rights Management Market: Revenue Forecasts (World), 2006-2013
Entertainment Digital Rights Management Market: Revenue Forecasts by Geographic Region (World), 2006-2013
Software Digital Rights Management Market: Revenue Forecasts (World), 2006-2013
Software Digital Rights Management Market: Revenue Forecasts by Geographic Region (World), 2006-2013
Digital Rights Management Market: Competitive Structure (World), 2006
Enterprise Rights Management Market: Market Share Analysis (World), 2006
Entertainment Digital Rights Management Market: Market Share Analysis (World), 2006
Software Digital Rights Management Market: Market Share Analysis (World), 2006
Digital Rights Management Market: Products Offered by Major Market Participants (World), 2006

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