Home Networks and Digital Rights Management
Cheng Yang · ZTE communications · 2006
Home networks are a focus in the development of social digitization and informatization. The bottleneck for developing the home network is how to safeguard the content security and the legitimate interests of every entity in the value-chain. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a general solution to utilization, storage, exchange and tracking of digital contents and their rights. The basic characteristics of DRM are systematicness and controllability. In order to meet the requirements of home networks on development of new media and services and intellectual property protection, it is necessary to solve the consistency problems existing in the utilization, storage, transfer of contents and rights and develop key techniques for secure end-to-end transmission, conditional access, conditional play, rights expression in DRM.