Digital Rights Management: Protecting and Monetizing Content

by Joan Van Tassel

Book Overview

Digital rights management (DRM) is a type of server software developed to enable secure distribution - and perhaps more importantly, to disable illegal distribution - of paid content over the Web. DRM technologies are being developed as a means of protection against the online piracy of commercially marketed material, which has proliferated through the widespread use of Napster and other peer-to-peer file exchange programs.With the flourish of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240807227
• ISBN13: 9780240807225
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.9"