Live digital rights management

摘要

The present disclosure relates to encoding and encrypting digital content, and distributing the encoded digital content to end users. A content provider creates or chooses a digital rights profile that is unique to a license server. The digital content is encoded and encrypted with the digital rights profile as portions of a streaming digital content are immediately received. The encoded digital profile is sent to an end user for rendering. The end user must have a license from the license server to decrypt the encoded digital content. Either the end user has a pre-existing license to decrypt, or must order a license to decrypt the received encoded and encrypted digital content.