Digital Right Management Feasibility Study

Digital Rights Management: Restriction,

Compatibility, and An Enhanced Security Scheme

Denzel Antoinette Santos

School of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Mapúa Institute of Technology

Muralla St., Intramuros, Manila, Philippines [e-mail] Abstract— With the advancement of technology in the society today and the unpredictable growth in the field of information technology and computer networks, most of what people do, on a daily basis, rely and are through the Internet. Acquiring contents that are digitally distributed has become a practice to some for it is one of the easiest ways of gathering data and is definitely convenient. Nowadays, large scale digital contents– images, audio,

Acquiring contents that are digitally distributed has become a practice to some for it is one of the easiest ways of gathering data and is definitely convenient. Nowadays, large scale digital contents– images, audio, video, software, etc.– are easily and efficiently distributed than ever before. As a trend, most consumers look for multimedia content on the Internet instead of getting it in a traditional and physical retail shop. If content providers can propose a good bargain, a refined profitable model promoting digital contents, for instance, Adobe [1], it will eventually be acknowledged and accepted by the desired consumers. This is where Digital Rights Management (DRM) takes place. Fundamentally, it is a logical method of protecting digital or physical contents with copyright infringement. It prevents unconstitutional redistribution of the said materials. Consequently, DRM does not necessarily mean managing digital contents alone but, digitally managing contents whether digital or physical. But more than protecting and securing, DRM also includes all possible levels and measures of managing an asset or property. Description, identification, analysis, trading, tracking, and monitoring of the legality of a property either physically or digitally are all

• License Server – this includes all the legal work. From the term itself, this is where licensing takes place. All the necessary information about the user, the content, the property, identifications, and specifications.

• Client - fundamentally, is on the user’s line and presents the following functions: controls the DRM, renders, and is the tool for user’s authentication.

For the most part, like any other thing in existence, Digital Rights Management has its weaknesses. Albeit true to its agenda of securing and protecting an individual’s or an organization’s intellectual properties, DRM-enabled technologies and products could still possibly be rejected by consumers which in turn, could be a hindrance to the DRM value chain. And so, DRM should maintain the stability of the interests of its stakeholders and users as well. Looking through the survivability of the DRM value chain, the balanced interest of its clients should also be taken into