METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PROTECTED DIGITAL CONTENT

摘要

Digital Rights Management (DRM) requirements are removed from aggregators (206) that store digital content. DRM is then utilized in the end-client (107) to render the digital content. Aggregators thus become "un-trusted" devices that store DRM-protected (usually encrypted) content. Client devices that wish to render the DRM-protected content will need to execute the appropriate DRM protocols with a rights issuer in order to do so.