Paper Info
Title
Digital Rights Management for the Mobile Internet
Abstract
Digital rights management (DRM) is assuming much importance in the mobile Internet where collaborative computing and content networking are taking center stage. Collaborative applications cover a wide range of applications, from multiparty gaming to shared viewing and/or processing of any object. Content typically refers to any sharable object in any of its manifestation. With sharing naturally arises the issues of copyrights, licensing, and revenue sharing. Then there are issues of balancing the societal behaviours, expectations, the rights of the content owners, and business imperatives. Mobile entertainment and multimedia services are the next big things on the horizon. Recent deployment of mobile Internet has opened many new opportunities to DRM. Mobile handheld provides a personal content-rich trusted device to users with connectivity anytime anywhere. It leverages the impulsive behaviour of people to share fun or join workgroup at different locations. This can be only possible with wireless mobile access. Some usage scenarios in the future would also contrast the legacy behaviour. For example, a wireless dating service may send subscribers the personal information of their potential dates in the current neighborhood by location-based services. Then, either party can initiate a SMS or MMS to start a conversation. Due to the sensitivity of the personal information, subscribers will not want the information to be falsified or forwarded without their consent. There are many similar usage scenarios that can be configured. Thus, DRM will be an enabler for this kind of trusted services in order to gain popularity. On the other hand, DRM may also be an inhibitor of widespread content sharing, especially for new games or services. Therefore, the design of DRM model may require a combination of promotion and protection at the same time, with their weights varying across different products and services. Moreover, the interests of equipment vendors and content providers vary significantly. Content providers earn from selling contents and surely want their rights to be protected. On the opposite end of the scale, equipment vendors earn from selling player equipment and gadgets and would naturally prefer to disable any DRM features to accelerate and enlarge user demand. With these competing forces, DRM would continue to evolve slowly over the next several years. In this article, we discuss the pivotal role of the DRM in the mobile Internet, the current state of DRM technology, and the issues and challenges that lie ahead for the industry.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1023/B:WIRE.0000037573.25350.51
Wireless Personal Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Signal Processing
Mobile computing,Mobile internet,Mobile search,World Wide Web,Computer science,Mobile Web,Internet access,Multimedia,Digital rights management,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
1-2
1572-834X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yin-ling Liong1162.57
Sudhir S. Dixit21556149.10