COPY PROTECTION STRATEGIES FOR THE DIGITAL HOME

摘要

Digital entertainment content is the driving force in the "digital home" revolution. Availability of content drives demand for consumer electronics devices and for the ability to interconnect these devices using a home network. At the same time, the new availability of digital content on a wider range of connected devices makes content protection an ever-more pressing issue for content developers and rights owners. Content protection is a highly emotive issue, which impacts all the players in the digital content distribution value chain. This paper defines both the technical and business terms critical to content protection in the digital home. It proposes the Secure Video Processor (SVP) — created by adding a small number of gates into an existing video processor chip design, creating a Secure Video Processor or SVP. The SVP Alliance is a group of interested parties committed to advancing the development of secure content distribution and the wide adoption of SVP technology. The paper also presents the business benefits that SVP brings to all the principal players in the content protection industry: operators, studios, chipset manufacturers, CE vendors and consumers.