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What is Fairplay

Chapter 8
Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution
A digital right management (DRM) technology used to protect digital content purchased from the iTunes online store. As with most DRM systems, the purpose of Fairplay is to place restrictions on the uses of copyrighted content.
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P2PTunes: A Peer-to-Peer Digital Rights Management System
Ramya Venkataramu (Hewlett-Packard Company, USA) and Mark Stamp (San Jose State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-262-6.ch008
Abstract
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is used to control access to copyrighted digital content. Apple employs a DRM system known as Fairplay in its iTunes online music store. Users communicate with the centralized iTunes server to download, purchase, play, and preview digital content. The iTunes music store has the potential disadvantage of a bandwidth bottleneck at the centralized server. Furthermore, this bandwidth bottleneck problem will escalate with increasing popularity of online music and other digital media, such as video. In this chapter, we analyze the Fairplay DRM system. We then consider a modified architecture that can be employed over existing peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Our new system, P2PTunes, is designed to provide the benefits of a decentralized P2P network while providing DRM content protection that is at least as strong as that found in Fairplay.
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