MINPAY: a multi-device Internet pay-as-you-watch system

摘要

New mobile communication technologies are expected to be broadly available in the near future. Those technologies (multimedia-enabled devices and broadband access to the Internet) will enable new services involving video transmission. Service providers are likely to want the customer to pay for contents, whereas they will also want their intellectual property protected. We present a system that integrates content, fine-grain pay-per-view and copyright protection with a rich variety of multimedia output devices and transmission networks.