ABOUT CONTENT PROTECTION

Original copyrighted content is delivered to your home network from a number of sources. It may be transmitted via satellite, terrestrial, or cable systems or recorded on various formats of digital media—CD-ROMs, DVDs, and hard drives. To protect this content from unauthorized copying, a number of different technologies are being developed. The development of these protection technologies is driven by the movie industry, which fears that the proliferation of digital technologies will encourage people to illegally copy content. For instance, it is relatively easy to download a new movie from your cable operator's broadband network and use your in-home network to make several copies of this film. The level of content protection ...

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