Korean IPTV to use Sun DRM
Sun Microsystems is developing an open source Digital Rights Management (DRM) system it intends to license out to IPTV operators. Dubbed DReaM (for DRM everywhere available) seems to have bagged its first client in Korean IPTV provider Alticast. While the conditional access system is still more than a year away from being finalized, the Korean firm is already displaying enthusiasm for building the system into their IPTV service.
Sun … plans to create a royalty-free, interoperable DRM technology, independent of any specific hardware or operating systems which focuses on the concept of a user being given access to content, rather than one specific device being authenticated. This is something that may come more easily to Sun, since it can rely on the Liberty Alliance initiative which is was also behind, for allowing a single copy of a persons identity to act as a trust source for other services, without having to reveal identities to other services.
At present, DReaM will only work on streamed content, and has no mechanism for protecting content that’s already recorded on enduser media (such as PVRs).
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