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Long Live (A Different) DRM!

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At the SportsPro OTT USA event in March, held at Citi Field in Queens, New York, someone said, "DRM is dead" and dropped the microphone. 尽管我的本能反应是立即驳斥这种说法, I've taken some time to reflect, and I think it deserves some more consideration.

DRM has always been a staple of streaming video providers. Using certificates and encryption, they can utilize DRM services as a layer of content protection, 确保只有那些有权查看内容的人(比如那些付费的人)才能这样做. But DRM has also been very contentious with consumers, as it limits where they can watch or store a digital asset. Many believe that once they purchase a digital asset, 他们应该有权把它放在任何他们想要的地方,在任何他们想要的地方观看, like they can with a DVD.

As a concept, DRM is perfectly valid. 内容所有者应该能够保护他们的内容,这样消费者就不会非法分享这些内容. 但消费者应该能够在购买后将内容存储在他们想要的任何地方. Yes, 他们只有观看的权利(而不是复制或分发), 但DRM不应该限制其他消费者的权利,比如想在其他设备上观看, from a different media server, 或者在不同的国家购买,也会受到限制.

管理内容的数字版权不应该消失. Perhaps, though, 保障和保护这些权利的机制应该改变, 也许这就是在SportsPro OTT USA上丢麦克风的原因.

New technologies to handle identity, authentication, and ownership, such as blockchain and NFTs, 承诺改变内容所有者保护和管理其资产数字版权的方式. 例如,在基于分类账的方法中,用户在哪里查看资产并不重要. 只要资产的回放功能连接到分类帐, 消费者观看内容的权利可以被验证.

想象一下,一个用户的加密钱包包含了他们购买的所有内容(比如nft的存储方式). When the user wants to play a piece of content, the player, 通过API或其他编程方式连接到钱包, simply checks the wallet for the rights. The media interface, then, 是钱包内内容的缩略图表示吗, 使用户可以轻松地从他们的收藏中找到他们想要观看的内容.

这种方法甚至可以处理订阅和章节内容(尽管方式略有不同), 因为消费者没有购买任何数字资产), 因为播放器具有其他OTT提供商中所有可用内容的缩略图表示. 因此,想象一下用户打开一个已经通过加密钱包身份验证的Netflix应用程序. When a user clicks on a piece of content to watch it, Netflix将他们的活跃订阅确定为全球分类帐中的一个条目,并允许播放内容.

这种方法的有趣之处在于不再需要加密. 不再通过播放器和DRM链中的证书服务器交换证书. 作为一个不可变的实体,分类帐是购买的真相来源.e., ownership) and access (i.e., subscription). 这意味着消费者可以在任何他们想要的地方观看他们拥有的任何东西,并以他们认为合适的方式“存储”它.

DRM as a concept is not going away, and it never should. But it does need to transform. The existing methods are too restrictive for consu­mers. 但是,基于分类帐和钱包的方法不仅使消费者能够自由地以他们想要的方式处理他们的媒体, 它还确保了内容所有者的数字权利的连续性.

Long live (a different) DRM.

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