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DRM today: good security or necessary evilProduct Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: Ovum Plc Published: January 2006 Product Code: R464-75 Description DRM has become an absolute must for operators deploying broadband content and services in an IP environment. The studios, music labels and frontline game publishers all insist on it: no DRM means no content. Not just any DRM will do either - it has to pass the copyright holder’s reliability test - but at what price? Protecting content with DRM significantly adds to the cost of IP content deployments. The proliferation of video services deployed over IP networks has opened up a vibrant new market for the DRM industry. However, the industry is currently mired by the lack of DRM standards and the resulting interoperability problems that this causes. In this environment, the legacy conditional access companies run the risk of being outpaced by nimbler ‘upstarts’ born of the convergence age that better understand the needs of the new media industry.Table of Contents Ovum viewRecommendations For broadband and IPTV service providers For technology companies What is DRM? Business climate: what the industry expects of DRM Technologies issues Patent licensing Lack of DRM standards that would enable interoperability DRM for broadband content over the public Internet: Microsoft vs Real Networks Microsoft Real Networks iPod’s FairPlay DRM and conditional access for IPTV Nagravision NDS Irdeto Widevine |
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