DRUS: A New Proposed Interoperable DRM Solution

The advent of consumer digital media products has vastly increased the concerns of copyright-dependent organizations within the music and movie industries. The increase usage of personal computers as household appliances has made it convenient for consumers to convert media originally in a physical/analog form into a digital form. This combined with the Internet and popular file sharing tools, has made unauthorized distribution of copies of copyrighted digital media much easier. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) field was thus spawned to prevent unauthorized access to digital content. The DRM solutions exist as either proprietary products owned by companies or as open standards. Most of the implemented DRM solutions suffer mainly from interoperability issue. This could kill the competition in the market through locking the users to certain products only. In this book, a new DRM system is proposed which overcomes the interoperability issue which exists in today s DRM products. This new DRM system is called Digital Rights Unit System (DRUS).

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Amr Tosson graduated with honors from the department of Electronics and Communications Engineering of Cairo University in 2006. He obtained his MSc in Electronics from the same departement in 2009. In addition to pursuing a PhD degree from the university of Waterloo, Amr is a Sr. Software Development Engineer at Mentor Graphics.