[Term of the Day]:Digital Rights Management
Term of the Day
“Digital Rights Management”
Definition — What is DRM?
The term Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a technology, combined with a set of policies and procedures, to control access to digital media assets – including audio, video, images, documents (such as PDFs), and software. DRM is also called Technological Protection Measures (TPM). While the concept of copying someone else’s idea is nothing new, the advances in modern technology make digital piracy much easier. Sharing or downloading information, like video or audio, only takes a few clicks. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the US economy loses almost $30 billion a year to online piracy.
Traditionally, digital content has been protected with encryption. A DRM system, using a secret key, encrypts content to make it unwatchable so that only somebody who has the key can decrypt and watch it. But that key, like all digital information, is easy to copy and share so on its own it is not sufficient to protect the content. To bolster overall content protection, business rules were added that define DRM policies, such as when and how the keys can be used. DRM provides complete control over how digital data is used, edited, copied. DRM system makes it almost impossible for anyone to steal protected content. DRM is now standard in the entertainment and publishing worlds, this is by no means the limit of DRM’s utility. Any person or any company has the ability, and the right, to protect the information they own with DRM. All you need is the DRM system. The DRM market is growing rapidly, according to recent statistics the current DRM market is worth $2.94 billion globally, expected to be more than double by 2025.