Questions tagged [drm]
DRM (digital rights management) is the enforcement of restrictions on access control to data through technical means, such as copy protection.
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Securing a video using encryption
Videos uploaded on Youtube or any other video streaming website can be easily downloaded by using 3rd party software.
In order to prevent the viewers from sharing the video to unauthorised people. I ...
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How to protect icon images that are sold online from being stolen? [duplicate]
I have been lately browsing material icons from this site.
I started to notice that they don't have any free plans as such so you will have to buy the icons if you want to download them. But however ...
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DRM - Make sure that a SDK is used by the client legally
We are an IT startup which provides some clients with a Software Development Kit, which may be used by the client within a specific environment, according to some terms and legal agreement.
Especially,...
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Does any DRM system work within a Virtual Machine? [closed]
I'm running a few quick tests to see if any DRM system works on a VM. Notably, most DRM systems (haven't found one yet), don't work on a virtual device:
iPhone Simulator on OSX (FairPlay)
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How is the Apple FairPlay Server Playback Context (SPC) message generated?
I'm researching encryption tools that use OS-verified hardware such as a TPM or Secure Element.
Given that FairPlay only works on iOS and certain Mac hardware, I suspect there is some interaction ...
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Canvas: DRM for websites?
If you look at my post history, you will realize that preventing websites from being ripped has been a goal of mine lately.
Recently, I came across a game developed within the browser using Canvas ...
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A file that doesn't allow copy/paste or print
We know that Adobe pdf's convenient control features for discouraging copy/paste and print are not real security measures.
We are searching for a way to create a file that has default security set ...
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Received letter from attorney stating they found a pirated copy of software on my computer based on my MAC address [closed]
Is this correct? Can a MAC address lead a company to the specific user?
They have my phone number and an old email address for me. The information they sent me is showing a MAC address and the ...
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How to prevent bypass of user agreement window
I have a file on my website which users can download. After clicking the download button, then I show a div with user agreements and two buttons, "accept user agreement" and "decline user agreement".
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How does HDCP detection work?
What is the mechanism used by websites like HBO GO to detect HDCP bypassing/violation? How foolproof is this mechanism, as the logic lies on the client side?
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Tutorial Video Protection on a Tablet
I am planning to start tutorial videos. I thought of buying a tablet and then putting the videos on the tablet. My major concern is that the students shouldn't be able to copy the videos. They ...
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Effective methods of preventing people ripping HTML/CSS/JS off my site via right click “save-as”? [duplicate]
PS: My last question was marked duplicated incorrectly. For all those marking this as a duplicate of the image copying question posted earlier, I am not interested in preventing just image copying. I ...
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Why is it a security risk to use Apple's receipt validation service directly from a device?
If you watch this video at 52:05 he says,
"Never, never, never, ever send the receipt directly from your app on a device to the validation service."
He goes on to say,
"Its way too easy for someone ...
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What's the difference between DRM and CAS?
As I see it, both are used within the scope of content security, to restrict who has access to what.
So what's the difference between a DRM system and a Conditional Access System? Is CAS a subset of ...
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Best practice for securing encrypted content on Android app
I have an Android APK which loads in locally stored content files protected by AES encryption, and I want to keep the encryption key secret from all users. Only the app itself should be able to read ...
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Refuse download request, but allow use online
How can I let end-users listening to my website's musics to play the songs, but reject their request if they are going to download the song via download manager or etc.?
For example, it would be nice ...
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How do OTT providers protect LIVE streams?
For Video on Demand, DRM seems the way to go. I've been told that providers might be using a token-based system, but I haven't found any provider so far that uses token, just DRM (except Akamai, ...
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Is encryption an efficient way to protect digital media?
Recently my friend and I were discussing his idea of protecting the digital media that he has been generating.
His initial idea was to encode the data using proprietary encoding algorithm and ...
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How to use TPM to identify a computer for licensing purposes?
I've been comissioned to use TPM to add a licensing system to an existing software project. The idea is to use TPM to uniquely identify the computer (that runs GNU/Linux, probably CentOS/RHEL/Fedora) ...
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Why is it so easy to pirate apps for Android, considering most have an internet connection and access to phone details? [duplicate]
It seems so easy to pirate apps for Android it's as if no one even cares. It's as easy as google searching for the apk and then installing it. Isn't this surprising as some apps cost money?
Wouldn't ...
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How to prevent source code theft in web application development
I'm developing a webapplication working with PHP, SQL DB and other technologies. I'm always considering someone stealing the source code or using it to other means.
How can you prevent someone from ...
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How does a PHP application get nulled and how to avoid it
As so many others, I've been a victim of having a PHP product of mine be nulled and put available on the internet to download freely. The purpose of this question is to try to make it more difficult ...
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How does HDMI splitter bypass HDCP?
I just read this article. It's about HDCP and how some old HDMI monitors would not work with your newer devices (such as game consoles, etc) because newer devices protect video stream content in a way ...
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Best way to control who can run my application? [closed]
I am planning to make an application and I don't want everyone to use it (only allowed people).
What I was going to do is getting the MAC address of the user and add it to our database "allowed_users" ...
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What protects HDCP keys in software?
I (somewhat) recently stumbled across HDCP (high-bandwidth digital content protection), a protocol that encrypts movies and other media "on the wire".
Now there are of course tools to play blu-rays ...
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secure ways to prevent access to an application by more than one person at a time?
If an application is licensed in such a way that is set up for one user, on one computer, how can I secure it?
Even if locking into one computer, how could you prevent the computer from being ...
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How did this site prevent me from creating multiple accounts?
Disclaimer: I just realized this question may read a little bit as if I'm trying to promote this site. I'm not. Now that I think about it, I'm unsure whether this site even has a proper license from ...
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How secure will EME be?
EME is a technology to allow proprietary code to be run in browser to frustrate piracy.
What are the security implications of this? Will it have full access to my computer (like the good-ol' ActiveX ...
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Discouraging users from copying images off a website?
Let me begin by stating that I'm aware it's extremely tedious or virtually impossible to prevent individuals from pirating content.
I'm working on a website for a client who is a relatively well ...
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How to prevent illegal file transfer or copying of video files from a PC? [closed]
I have developed a windows desktop application using VB.NET. My applications main purpose is to play videos. I have some videos which has copyrights on them, that are not suppose to be distributed or ...
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Cryptography behind RedHat subscription system (DRM)?
I have to do a project like a subscription manager. Ideally this should work like RedHat subscriptions. I'm having a hard time figuring out how it was implemented. How do they manage to avoid a ...
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Hide data from user, but process it in application
Is there a way to hide the data that's received somehow from the user? In particular, I have some data that gets send from a webserver to an application. I want the application to process the data, ...
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Share private key with expiry period
I'd like a way to encrypt my data, and temporarily share access to 'semi-trusted' parties.
If I encrypt my data with my private key, is it possible to share my private key (or some derivative of it)...
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How does DRM enforcement work (across different platforms)? [closed]
I would like to know how Android, Windows, Linux, and OS X deal with DRM (Digital Rights Management) e-pub, pdf, and mp3 files. Basically, if I download a DRM file to my device (perhaps one that has ...
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Script / method to erase USB flash drive content after a certain number of uses
I have a few bootable thumb drives with various OS's that I intend to let someone use. However, I need a way to ensure the USB drives can only be used once. Thus my question - is there a way to have a ...
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How are people still copying and redistributing DRM-protected music
...when DRM-protected material is encrypted using the AES cipher, which there are currently no efficiently computable cracks for?
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Preventing registered users from sharing passwords [closed]
Below is a proposal for dealing with a situation of website security. I am wondering whether it seems feasible, from both a technical and usability point of view. I want to make sure that the proposal ...
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Putting hidden DRM into PNG images to track copyright infringement [duplicate]
There was a question like this, but it was about JPG pictures. I have the same one about PNG pictures.
I've recently had trouble where someone stole an artwork of mine and put it as a YouTube avatar. ...
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What are some ways of protecting a VM image?
I am looking to distribute a linux VM image (with a modified linux kernel to suit or product's needs) that runs some proprietary software that will already be on the VM I distribute. The goals is to ...
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How does DRM stop copying?
I've been doing some research into some DRM solutions, specifically "self-protecting containers". One example of this is DigiBox. Normally, the protected data is encrypted in some kind of container. ...
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How would an improved "read receipt" work as an email, Facebook post, or webpage?
I'm exploring various ways to implement cryptographic read receipts, that would be used to tell the content producer that the content was viewed. In addition to feedback reporting, a response might ...
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DRM Video encryption
I had some work where I needed to secure streaming. So I looked over all DRM protections that are currently available, and then I found out that I had 3 opinions, first to use very expensive DRM (...
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Image steganography and tracking
We are running an online-press media-library. On this site many brands are uploading images and track press users download and views per image.
But some brand now want to add unique code in image so ...
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What is the security/copy protection model for streaming media services?
I realize this is a broad question, but maybe there is a simple answer
From my understanding, Streaming media services such as Amazon instant video, Netflix, and others do all decryption client side. ...
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How is this web resource hidden from the user? [closed]
Motivation: I've been interested in how various agencies hide data, either through incompetence or willful intent, that is required to be "open". Specifically I've seen oil companies use images to ...
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Partial Man on the End Security
The Situation: I'm developing a script that runs in a popular sandbox game as a paid service for other developers. The problem is that the game does not implement a way to do so. The language is Lua ...
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How do iTunes movie rentals work?
I've been wondering how iTunes movie rentals work from a security standpoint. Given that the "rented" files are actually downloaded to the user's computer and then played from there, it seems like ...
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Protecting a document that you sell
I have written a short guidebook that I have been selling hardcopy. There is now interest in a digital version. How do I protect this guidebook so only the people who purchase it have access to it? I ...
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Can I add 'user-identifying noise' to MP3 files to determine which user shared my file, if I find it later on the internet?
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I'm streaming MP3 files to users. Users are not allowed to share these files. I know that it's in the end impossible to not let anyone download the files. That's not the problem, people can ...
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Restricting source code to domain name
I'm starting a very large project soon. It must include a licensing system.
The project will produced using PHP/Laravel/JavaScript and use many different libraries, a CMS, and a few databases.
The ...
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