In today's multimedia world digital content is easily available to and widely used by end consumers. On the one hand high quality, the ability to be copied without loss of quality and the existence of portable players make digital content, in particular digital music, very attractive to consumers. On the other hand the music industry is facing increasing revenue loss due to illegal copying. To cope with this problem so called Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems have been developed in order to control the usage of content. However, as a matter of fact currently no vendor and no DRM system is widely accepted by the market. This is due to the incompatibility of different systems, the lack of open standards and other reasons. This paper analyzes the current situation of DRM systems, derives requirements for DRM systems and presents technological building blocks to meet these requirements. Finally an alternative approach for a DRM system is presented that better respects the rights of the consumers.

Authors: Neubauer, Christian; Siebenhaar, Frank; Brandenburg, Karlheinz
Affiliations: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS-A, Erlangen, Germany ; Fraunhofer Arbeitsgruppe Elektronische Medientechnologie AEMT & Ilmenau University, Ilmenau, Germany(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 113 (October 2002) Paper Number: 5688
Publication Date: October 1, 2002 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Low Bit-Rate Coding
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