Windows Media Security Issues
In the Internet age, security and IPR are sensitive to those who hold copyrighted information. For this paper, the copyrighted information is in the form of songs that are held by music companies. Since the advent of the Internet, a sizable amount of information is available for free; this includes copyrighted information. There are numerous sites offering free downloads of compressed songs that are copyrighted. It is estimated that the music industry suffers a loss of about $5 billion annually.
The music companies and the software industry are exploring ways to counter this free trade and piracy of copyrighted songs. Microsoft, after discussion with the music companies, have brought out a security model that would counter piracy of copyrighted songs. Furthermore, they have also brought out an encoding format that compresses songs to a greater magnitude than most other formats without loss in CD quality.
In this paper, we discuss the features of Windows Media Rights Manager, and how it can prove beneficial to music companies that want to host their songs online in a secure manner....
