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Chapter 5: DRM for Windows Media

You can protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. Niagara SCX

allows you to encrypt your content with DRM technology while you encode. You can apply DRM

while encoding to a file and when broadcasting a stream. Users must obtain a license to play the

content. This license contains the key to unlock the content and the rights that govern its use.

NOTE: A third-party license provider issues licenses. Therefore, you must set up an

account with a third-party license provider to protect your content.

Enable DRM Function

Niagara SCX automatically detects any available DRM profiles imported on the encoding system.

If you have no DRM profiles installed, the system disables the DRM functions in Niagara SCX.

Table 15. Enable DRM Function in Niagara SCX

Step

Action

Set up an account and create a DRM profile with a third-party license provider.

 Use the Windows Media Encoder application included with the Niagara

streaming systems or available as a free download from Microsoft

(http://www.microsoft.com ) to import the DRM profile.

 Restart the encoding system where you install Niagara SCX allowing the software

to auto-detect and enable its DRM functions.

Import a DRM profile.

 Set up an account with a licensed provider and create a DRM profile if you do

not already have one.

 Use Windows Media Encoder to import the profile on the encoding system once

you create the DRM profile.

Copy the DRM profiles to a protected location (Figure 32) on the encoding system to

ensure nothing accidentally removes or erases them.

Figure 32. DRM Profiles Location

Start the Windows Media Encoder application (Figure 33) on the encoder system.