Well this is definitely not about one of those xRM solutions that Dynamics CRM Team boasts about.. he.. he.. (in case u saw their video)
Digital rights mgmt. technology limits on how users may make and distribute copies of digital files and physical media like CDs/DVDs. nothing new and interesting.. ;-)
But its just that came across a few solutions/products from MS that i thought i will share you with.. :-)
The Windows Media DRM tech. got started in 1999 and is adopted in computing as well as in consumer electronics ind. namely by Nokia, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, and NTT DoCoMo. Recently MS came up with MS PlayReady which is more than what a DRM does. It caters to mobile ind. also and other than microsoft audio/video formats, it also supports games, ringtones, images, etc. And a typical MS PlayReady ecosystem looks like this:
Microsoft PlayReady supports wide rage of business model subscription scenarios with flat rate to access any and all content under 3 diff. mechanism i.e. timely subscribtion renewal, metering and license chaining. It also supports pay-per-view scenarios, pay-per-track scenarios, rental scenarios by supporting time-based licenses, gifting scenarios like one person effectively paying for another person to accessing content.
Also it has wide range of content distribution options like basic progressive downloads, streaming, side loading from PC to mobile, MMS, WiFi, bluetooth sync., etc
So if it interests you.. do go and read more abt. it here...
Why i 'm just talking abt. only MS based ones?? its like asking why lowest dangling fruits are plucked first.. ;-p
technically they are always easy to install, deploy and use.. just do next, next and next.. but yes the same doesn't go well as far as price is concerned (its costing approx $30000 for the SDK and $30000 per processor for service deployment license)
So then out of curiosity i just bing'ed (not googled.. :) to see how easy is it to crack DRM protected files.. and i found plenty of such tools that too FREE!!!
http://undrm.info/remove-DRM-protection/
http://www.instantfundas.com/2008/01/how-to-remove-drm-from-media-files.html
not sure if these tools do work what they claim to and whether PlayReady managed content will crack proof???
Happy Reading...
even if question remains open on whether To DRM or Not to DRM!!! ;-)
