GeocodeŽ - The Anti-Piracy Digital Media Rights Management Solution The management of digital rights across the spectrum of users is a fundamental challenge in a ubiquitous always connected information universe. GeocodeŽ is the premier metadata tag to ensure that content is protected under any digital rights management system. GeocodeŽ protects, enforces, and manages media rights and revenues for any multi-channel media delivery system by providing a unique global location, time sensitive, and virtual location geospatial meta tag. The GeocodeŽ also is virtually undecipherable when used as an encryption key for encrypting media. No alpha characters are used to identify the unique GeocodeŽ tag.  Courtesy of Project DReaM An Architectural Overview White Paper Authors: Gerard Fernando, Tom Jacobs, and Vishy Swaminathan September 2005
GeocodeŽ provides unsurpassed digital rights management for many industry uses. They include: Conditional Access Conditional access technology is the media protection technology used by various media networks such as satellite, cable, terrestrial broadcasting, and webcasting. Video, audio, and data are encrypted during transmission of the uplink site and distributed over an open broadcast network. To block unauthorized users from access, only authorized subscribers receive keys to decrypt content. Typically, the keys are protected using smart card technology to prevent illegal distribution of keys. GeocodeŽ tags can act as the keys to unlocking content based on geographic location, and/or time, and/or virtual location.
Security  Encryption is used for securing content. It requires keys to unlock content for use. GeocodeŽ tags, when used as keys in encryption schemes, ensures that content is only accessible based on geographic location, and/or time, and/or virtual location or all of these factors. Most security components do not involve rights management in any way. Similarly, DRM includes functions (like reporting or financial interaction) that fall completely outside the scope of security. Nonetheless, security is necessary for DRM to exist. Not only does the content have to be secure from unauthorized access, but also the rights themselves must be secure from tampering. Therefore it is very important that the best security options be available for DRM. An open, standards-based DRM infrastructure makes it possible for solutions providers to use their choice of security. Watermark Plus Encryption Watermarks are sometimes encrypted to protect metadata against alteration. Also, generally files are encrypted and then watermarked to protect AND bind metadata to it. GeocodeŽ tags ensure that watermarks used to mark content, retain the necessary elements to protect media based on geographic location, and/or time, and/or virtual location or all of these factors. Superdistribution Superdistribution refers to the circulation of DRM-protected content files freely. Since the content is protected using GeocodeŽ tags, access must be purchased to fully utilize it. GeocodeŽ tags offer persistent protection, even after purchase by any given individual. There is no opportunity to pass along the content to friends, co-workers, communities, or pirate boards. However, the GeocodeŽ protected version of the content can be shared as easily as any other files.
Consumers will be able to hand this content off to others they feel might also enjoy it. The file might contain a description of the content and perhaps a sample of that content (part of a song, a clip from a movie, a chapter from a book) available for free, enhancing the pass-along value of the file and making it more likely that consumers will open it.
Superdistributed GeocodeŽ protected content can be passed along from consumer to consumer any number of times. Any recipient can retain it, store it anywhere, and access it at any time in the future. Consumers can pass it along before or after unlocking access for their own use and the passed-along version is still safe from unauthorized viewing by subsequent recipients. Those subsequent recipients enjoy the same rights to access as earlier recipients did. Superdistributed GeocodeŽ protected content has the potential to experience viral growth similar to other Internet phenomena. Unlike most viral mechanisms, this one yields revenues directly to the owner of the content. Superdistribution GeocodeŽ protected content also makes it possible to run legally viable peer-to-peer content exchange services that will benefit their users a great deal without turning into centers for the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted content. Revenue Streams Building a metering application to address the revenue capture of digital media in the ubiquitous information universe is the first step towards ensuring media rights are protected and revenue is captured.
GeocodeŽ tags ensure that revenue streams for use are tagged and metered. This results in immediate capture of use and profits generated can be based on subscriptions, term licenses, royalties, and micro transaction-based fees.
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