Digital Rights Management (Windows CE 5.0)
Digital rights management (DRM) provides Windows Media content providers with the means to protect their proprietary music or other data from unauthorized copying and other illegal uses. DRM technology protects digital content by encrypting it and attaching to it usage rules that determine the conditions under which a user can play back the content. Usage rules typically prevent copying or limit the number of times the content will play. The operating system works with the multimedia middleware to enforce these rules.
Windows CE uses DRM version 7.
DRM is designed to be transparent to users unless they attempt to violate the usage rules that they agreed to when they purchased the digital content.
In This Section
- DRM OS Design Development
Provides information that describes how OEMs can add and integrate DRM support into their OS designs. - DRM Application Development
Provides architectural and background information about DRM, and practical design details you need to know to create applications that use DRM. - DRM Security
Describes the security factors that you should consider when designing and developing operating systems and applications that use DRM. - DRM Migration
Describes the changes that you need to make to code that uses older versions of DRM work with the latest version of Windows CE. - DRM Samples
Provides code examples and descriptions of code samples.
Related Sections
- Media
Provides information about media technologies for Windows CE. - Windows Media Player Control
Provides information for OS design and application development for the ActiveX control that plays back Windows Media formats.
See Also
Graphics and Multimedia Technologies
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