Research On Incentive And Security Mechanism Of DRM In P2P Networks

With the development of Internet and individual computers, digital content can be distributed across the Internet to end users. However, digital content can be easily copied, altered, redistributed, which could cause revenue loss to media companies. Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems can be used to protect digital assets and control their distribution and usage. And there are a number of DRM solutions on market now, most of them are based on Client/Server(C/S) model, unsuitable in P2P. So, we integrate traditional DRM into P2P network, pay more attention on the incentive mechanism and security problems to design an incentive based DRM system in P2P networks in order to solve the digital rights management problem in P2P.In this paper, we analyze the traditional DRM systems at first,...