Digital Rights Management is the use of keys and certificates to authorize playback of a video stream to a specific user and/or device over IP streaming like OTT. DRM provides a mechanism to distribute content encryption keys securely, to specify rules for the use of those keys, and to ensure
High level view of video streaming workflow for live content.
In streaming video, a bad actor is a pirate mass-distributes content illegally or a consumer who is engaging in unauthorized access to licensed content.
Conditional Access System (CAS) is the technology used to control subscriber access to digital television by encrypting the program signal and providing access to the authorized user based on entitlement policy. This is predominantly broadcast/multicast.
Basic data to describe and contextualize the content or a creative work. For media assets exhibited on streaming video platforms, this type of metadata is usually user-facing and is inclusive of localization. Descriptive metadata also encompasses metadata for temporal association of characters, locations, moods, themes, and objects within a creative
Digital Rights Management is the use of keys and certificates to authorize playback of a video stream to a specific user and/or device over IP streaming like OTT.
Encryption is the method by which information is transformed using a secret key that hides the data and protects confidentiality of the data.
Forensic watermarking is intended to provide a means to identify the source of leaked content at the distributor level, at the more granular device level or even the session/subscriber level. When leaked content is found on piracy sites, it can be analyzed for any embedded marks which, when extracted, can
Geo-blocking is a technology that restricts access to video content based upon the user’s geographical location.
A technique to personalize content based on geographical location.
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