PlaySafe: A Digital Rights Management System for Media Content Consumption

DOI

10.2991/978-94-6463-094-7_14How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Application Programming Interface (API); Digital Rights Management (DRM); AES-128; Encryption; Decryption

Abstract

Digital right management (DRM) is widely used by online streaming service provider that allows them to manage and control the access rights of their copyrighted content. The existing DRM technology requires the developer to gain approval from the DRM provider company in order to access to their proprietary Software Development Kit and tools. This issue had caused some software developers not being able to get their approval to implement the DRM technology as the DRM’s proprietary Software Development Kit and tools are not publicly available and often causing the delay of their software release. A DRM system, PlaySafe, is proposed as an alternative DRM system for copyrighted content management. The objective of this research is to design and develop a DRM system to facilitate media file encryption and decryption processes. The requirements elicitation and gathering process from the documentations provided by the existing DRM technology provider is being used as the requirements for the newly proposed DRM system. PlaySafe provides the content provider with features such as encryption, key rotation, automated HLS streaming packaging, and set streaming quality constraints which are cross platform, self-hosting supported and open source. The proposed backend system runs on a modular Docker container with virtualization which allows the content provider to host the system on their own local machines. Lastly, PlaySafe is an open-source project which allows anyone with the right knowledge to modify and add extra feature that they need since the source code is accessible by the public.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Calvin Yee Keen Lau
AU  - Fang-Fang Chua
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/27
TI  - PlaySafe: A Digital Rights Management System for Media Content Consumption
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Information Technology and Intelligent Computing (CITIC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 171
EP  - 181
SN  - 2589-4900
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-094-7_14
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-094-7_14
ID  - Lau2022
ER  -