Multivariate Solutions for Digital Rights Management Using Hardware and Software Methods-Survey

Digital Rights Management is a system which is established to protect the secure content from eavesdroppers. The secure content has to be transmitted from the service provider to the client by protecting it from the unauthorized users. To implement remote control protection of the secure content, the protection must be persistent and should stay with the content. This paper gives a brief overview about the existing solutions of DRM. The existing multivariate solutions present in hardware and software is discussed. A comparative study between the hardware and software solutions mentioned highlights the pros and cons of both the solutions.