Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a generic term used to cover the protection of proprietary digital content against misuse, including unauthorised distribution and use. This chapter seeks to re-examine possible solutions to the provision of DRM by first examining the threats and resulting security requirements, and then classifying approaches to DRM depending on the nature of the operating system on which the proprietary content will be used. This then leads to a detailed analysis of security requirements for a DRM solution running on an 'open' operating system platform.

Inspec keywords: operating systems (computers); digital rights management

Other keywords: standardised DRM security; proprietary digital content protection; digital rights management; unauthorised distribution; operating system

Subjects: Legal aspects of computing