Paper Info
Title
Steal this movie - automatically bypassing DRM protection in streaming media services
Abstract
Streaming movies online is quickly becoming the way in which users access video entertainment. This has been powered by the ubiquitous presence of the Internet and the availability of a number of hardware platforms that make access to movies convenient. Often, video-on-demand services use a digital rights management system to prevent the user from duplicating videos because much of the economic model of video stream services relies on the fact that the videos cannot easily be saved to permanent storage and (illegally) shared with other customers. In this paper, we introduce a general memory-based approach that circumvents the protections deployed by popular video-on-demand providers. We apply our approach to four different examples of streaming services: Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, Spotify, and Netflix and we demonstrate that, by using our technique, it is possible to break DRM protection in a semi-automated way.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
USENIX Security
video stream service,general memory-based approach,duplicating video,users access video entertainment,different example,amazon instant video,movies online,media service,video-on-demand service,popular video-on-demand provider,drm protection
Field
DocType
Citations 
Internet privacy,Digital rights management system,Economic model,Computer science,Computer security,Entertainment,Multimedia,The Internet
Conference
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.57
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ruoyu Wang128216.23
Yan Shoshitaishvili235826.98
Christopher Kruegel38799516.05
Giovanni Vigna47121507.72