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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.

Five Important Considerations When Choosing a DRM Vendor

By Gabe Elton

January 27, 2022

DRM , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy , Adding DRM

When faced with a decision of what DRM vendor to choose, the landscape can prove to be a bit cloudy. While there aren’t many companies to choose from, there are several important things that need to be considered.

Deploying DRM Workflows with FFmpeg

By Romans K.

January 12, 2022

DRM , Piracy , OVHcloud , anti-piracy , FFMpeg , Bento 4 , Shaka Player , Adding DRM

When people come to us asking for DRM integration advice, they usually already have a video workflow that includes content encoding and packaging. Customers mostly use different 3rd party vendors that are already integrated with BuyDRM like Wowza,...