A Novel Digital Rights Management in P2P Networks Based on Bitcoin System

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have proliferated and become ubiquitous. A school of thought has emerged that harnessing the established user-base and ease of content dissemination of such networks presents a potentially lucrative opportunity. However, content creators have been reluctant to adopt P2P networks as a distribution vehicle since these networks are plagued with piracy. This chapter focuses on developing a solution for distributing digital content in P2P networks in a way that established businesses and amateur artists alike can profit. We propose a content distribution system that employs Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies and is independent of the underlying P2P network. Our system relies on innovative uses of security technologies to deter piracy. In addition, we include various non-technical features that encourage users to “play by the rules”.

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A Study on Distributed License Authorization System Based on Threshold Secret Sharing

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.380-384.2749 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 380-384 ◽

pp. 2749-2752

Author(s):

Ying Li ◽

Hong Min Jiang ◽

Tao Hu

Keyword(s):

Secret Sharing ◽

Digital Rights Management ◽

Digital Content ◽

P2p Networks ◽

Threshold Secret Sharing ◽

Verifiable Secret Sharing ◽

Digital Rights ◽

Rights Management ◽

Key Issues ◽

Independent Synthesis

With the rapid popularity of P2P networks, the demand for digital rights management (DRM) in P2P mode is increasing quickly. The research on issuance of digital content licenses is the key issues in DRM. As for the centralized authorization systems, the security and the efficiency have certain defects. An improved distributed license authorization system is presented in this paper. And the nodes in the system are divided into six kinds of roles in accordance with theirs functions and a new non-interactive verifiable secret sharing protocol is introduced. Because of the adoptions of threshold secret sharing mechanism and the independent synthesis peers, the system security is improved in the transmission of digital content license and the burden of nodes is reduced in P2P networks. Each license authorization node gets the correct secret sharing by the non-interactive verifiable secret sharing protocol.

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A Novel Digital Rights Management Scheme in P2P Networks

Communications and Network ◽

10.4236/cn.2010.24033 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 02 (04) ◽

pp. 230-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jing Feng ◽

Ruoshan Kong ◽

Yulin Wang

Keyword(s):

Digital Rights Management ◽

P2p Networks ◽

Digital Rights ◽

Management Scheme ◽

Rights Management

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Digital Rights Management for Untrusted Peer-to-Peer Networks

Networking and Telecommunications ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-986-1.ch118 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 1848-1878

Author(s):

Pallavi Priyadarshini ◽

Mark Stamp

Keyword(s):

Distribution System ◽

Digital Rights Management ◽

Peer To Peer ◽

P2p Network ◽

P2p Networks ◽

Digital Rights ◽

Security Technologies ◽

Peer To Peer Networks ◽

Rights Management ◽

Technical Features

Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have proliferated and become ubiquitous. A school of thought has emerged that harnessing the established user-base and ease of content dissemination of such networks presents a potentially lucrative opportunity. However, content creators have been reluctant to adopt P2P networks as a distribution vehicle since these networks are plagued with piracy. This chapter focuses on developing a solution for distributing digital content in P2P networks in a way that established businesses and amateur artists alike can profit. We propose a content distribution system that employs Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies and is independent of the underlying P2P network. Our system relies on innovative uses of security technologies to deter piracy. In addition, we include various non-technical features that encourage users to “play by the rules”.

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