Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a set of access control licensing used by online video and audio services to enforce their content usage policies. For enforcement, DRM is also used to impose limitations on browser capabilities. With the evolution of web technologies, many services have transitioned towards HTML5 videos with DRM piracy protection. This necessitated an adoption by browsers for implementing DRM mechanisms like the Content Decryption Module (CDM). Firefox, recognizing the need to support modern web standards and user experience, incorporates the Google Widevine CDM to facilitate the playback of DRM-controlled content which may require enabling Firefox DRM through…
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Widevine Content Decryption Module or CDM DRM & its browser components
Digitalization of media assets such as video, audio, software, images, and PDFs has challenged traditional copyright laws. Sensitive documents, video footage, premium content have a very high value than the cost incurred to create. These multimedia contents are often illegally reused, remixed, and later republished. Hence comes the need for a proper protection mechanism of digital assets. With digital storage, there is always a risk of unwanted access to your library. No one wants their files to be illegally downloaded, shared or uploaded on unauthorized networks. Distributors and asset owners now have access to a range of content protection technologies…
Netflix DRM: How & Why of Encrypted Video Security (2025)?
With Netflix's popularity booming around the world, video piracy seems to be a major issue to combat. In 2020, Netflix spent nearly 12 billion U.S. dollars on its original content creation. Any illegal content distribution may lead to a decrease in paid subscribers and revenue loss. When people pirate movies and TV shows, they are less likely to subscribe to legal streaming services like Netflix. To fight video piracy, Netflix uses Digital Right Management (DRM) to protect the copyrights of its premium content. Netflix DRM is one of the most secured anti-piracy solutions for premium videos. Table Of Content: The…
AES Encryption: What it is and how it compares to DRM systems
When you hear the term cyber security, one of the first things that strike to everyone’s mind is AES(Advanced Encryption Standard). The reason for the same is the rise of AES encryption as the global standard of encryption and one of the most popular technologies used for security purposes. If you or your organization offers or is looking out for some cybersecurity solutions, you must have definitely come across the term Advanced Encryption Standard previously. In this blog, we will be looking to illustrate the distinction between AES encryption, secure key exchange protocols, and DRM systems. Popular Streaming protocols that…
Why is DRM not enough to protect video piracy? What additional measures are required?
For quite a long, it was considered that Hollywood approved DRMs (Google Widevine, Apple Fairplay DRM) is good enough to protect videos from piracy. The technologies which hackers pursue to illegally download content or share illegal access have advanced over the years, and currently DRM is not enough to prevent video piracy. We are listing various reasons why DRM is not enough, and what additional protections are done by VdoCipher to fix each vulnerability. DRM vulnerabilities in past 1 year Extracting video URLs to play outside website/app or app clones Illegal password sharing leading over-usage Screen Capture in some platforms…
The Right DRM Solution For Your Business
In the past few years, there has been an exponential increase in video consumption. According to Statista, in 2019 alone, the number of digital video viewers was 2.6 billion, which is reported to increase to 3.1 billion in 2023. With the increase in the number of viewers, the number of platforms catering to them also increased. A few years back Netflix was the only major player in the video streaming market. But now there are many more platforms, including Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, Hulu, and many more. With so many streaming platforms available, users often prefer to pirate content rather…