Lecture 16: Digital Rights Management

Date: November 6, 2013
Homework due: Nov. 20 at 5:00pm

1. Midterm: still grading …
2. Digital rights management (DRM) goals
3. Access control models
   1. Discretionary access control
   2. Mandatory access control
   3. Originator-controlled access control (ORCON)
4. Problems
   1. Why ORCON is hard
   2. Process-based access control lists
5. How it is done now
   1. Copy protecting DVDs: DVD Content Control System
   2. Copy-protecting CDs: Sony-BMG rootkit
6. Legal issues
   1. Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)
   2. End user license agreements (EULA)
   3. Piracy and its prevention
   4. Other legal processes