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Citation
Mark Stamp, Ramya Venkataramu. "P2PTunes: A peer-to-peer digital rights management system". IGI Global, 2008.

Abstract
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is used to control access to copyrighted digital content. Apple employs a DRM system known as Fairplay in its iTunes online music store. Users communicate with the centralized iTunes server to download, purchase, play, and preview digital content. The iTunes music store has the potential disadvantage of a bandwidth bottleneck at the centralized server. Furthermore, this bandwidth bottleneck problem will esca-late with increasing popularity of online music and other digital media, such as video. In this paper we analyze the Fairplay DRM system. Then we consider a modified architecture that can be employed over existing peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Our new system, P2PTunes, is designed to provide the benefits of a decentralized P2P network while providing DRM content protection that is at least as strong as that found in Fairplay.

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  Mark Stamp, Ramya Venkataramu. "P2PTunes: A
  peer-to-peer digital rights management system". IGI
  Global, 2008.

• BibTeX

  @inbook{StampVenkataramu08_P2PTunesPeertopeerDigitalRightsManagementSystem,
      author = {Mark Stamp and Ramya Venkataramu},
      title = {P2PTunes: A peer-to-peer digital rights management
                system},
      publisher = {IGI Global},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is used
                to control access to copyrighted digital content.
                Apple employs a DRM system known as Fairplay in
                its iTunes online music store. Users communicate
                with the centralized iTunes server to download,
                purchase, play, and preview digital content. The
                iTunes music store has the potential disadvantage
                of a bandwidth bottleneck at the centralized
                server. Furthermore, this bandwidth bottleneck
                problem will esca-late with increasing popularity
                of online music and other digital media, such as
                video. In this paper we analyze the Fairplay DRM
                system. Then we consider a modified architecture
                that can be employed over existing peer-to-peer
                (P2P) networks. Our new system, P2PTunes, is
                designed to provide the benefits of a
                decentralized P2P network while providing DRM
                content protection that is at least as strong as
                that found in Fairplay.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/425.html}
  }
  

Posted by Mark Stamp on 18 Aug 2008.
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