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The 2023 Year in Review – New Products, New Features, New Customers, and New Faces!

By Gabe Elton

January 11, 2024

DRM , Content Protection , Content Security , watermarking

2023 was a busy year indeed – BuyDRM enhanced its KeyOS Content Security Platform with new releases, feature sets, and products, and we are just getting started! From time to time, we are asked – "What is on your roadmap?" How much time do you have?...

Capture Lost Revenue by Limiting Concurrency With DRM

By Gabe Elton

September 11, 2023

DRM , concurrency limiting

It has been estimated that account sharing, and other piracy, cost the streaming industry over $9 billion in lost revenue in 2019, a number that is expected to grow to $12.5 billion by 2024. Some analysts go even further, with one saying that just...

Features and Benefits to Different Approaches to Watermarking

By Gabe Elton

June 20, 2023

DRM , forensic watermarking , a/b watermarking , client-side watermarking , server-side watermarking

In an increasingly digital economy, there is an ever-increasing threat of piracy, illegal downloads, and unauthorized streaming on unauthorized platforms. Hence, it is necessary to protect the interests of content creators and businesses - both in...

Preventing Screen Recording with DRM: Balancing Security and User Experience

By Roman K.

May 23, 2023

DRM , Google Widevine DRM , Apple FairPlay DRM , Microsoft PlayReady DRM , forensic watermarking , Innovation , Multi-Cloud , Screen Recording

Screen recording is the act of capturing the content displayed on a screen in real time. Due to its ease of use, screen recording has become one of the most prolific forms of video piracy over the last several years. As a result, content creators...

DRM Innovations with BuyDRM at NAB

By Gabe Elton

March 29, 2023

DRM , forensic watermarking , NAB , Innovation , WebRTC , Multi-Cloud

It’s that time of year again! NAB is right around the corner and our experts in Content Security will be visiting for the first time since 2019. BuyDRM has made many advancements over the last several years and we would love the chance to fill you...

Requests Per Second: The Key Metric to Scaling with DRM

By Gabe Elton

February 08, 2023

DRM , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy

As a CTO, systems architect, and systems engineer, along with a host of other titles and roles in the streaming space – you have done everything right to ensure that your project gets off on the right foot. Your ingress points are solid, your...

The Anatomy of a Multi-DRM License Request

By Roman K.

October 12, 2022

Multi-DRM , DRM , encryption , License Request

This post was originally intended as an introduction to the license acquisition process. I wanted to describe how every license request looks for those that are interested and that is it. But after I started writing it, I remembered that customers...

KeyOS WebPlay: a DRM-forged HTML5 player SDK

By Mark Zeldes

June 07, 2022

Multi-DRM , DRM , encryption , DRM Capable Player , HTML5 , HTML5Player , HTML5 Player with DRM Support

Every content streaming newcomer needs to decide on links in the content supply chain. It goes like this: encoding -> packaging -> storing -> playback. Today we are going to focus on the last bit – the playback.

ESP Partner Spotlight: Harmonic

By Hunter Levy

May 24, 2022

Blog , Multi-DRM , DRM , encryption , harmonic , partner program

As we continue to highlight our ESP partners on The DRM Blog, we hope to provide some useful information about their integration with the KeyOS Content Security Platform. The BuyDRM ESP Partner program is a one-of-a-kind approach to pre-integrating...

The Top 5 Questions to Answer for a Smooth Transition to DRM

By Roman K.

April 12, 2022

Blog , Multi-DRM , DRM , encryption , PSSH

Are you considering adding DRM to your streaming workflow? Want to save time and avoid headaches? Here are a few things that you will want to consider before diving headfirst in the shallow end of the pool.