Digital rights management: the four perspectives of developers, distributors, users and lawyers.

McDonald, Neil; Faily, Shamal; Favale, Marcella; Gatzidis, Christos

Abstract

Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to a collection of security mechanisms that are widely deployed on a number of copyright-protected digital assets. However, despite the existence of a number of studies of the technical architectures of rights management security systems, there is little scholarly/academic literature dedicated to the human aspects associated with circumvention of DRM security. Using videogames as a case study, this paper discusses how DRM is perceived differently depending on where one's stake in the use of DRM security lies. This paper concludes by proposing questions that could be used to aid content distributors and security practitioners in the creation of a fairer DRM framework.

Citation

MCDONALD, N., FAILY, S., FAVALE, M. and GATZIDIS, C. 2015. Digital rights management: the four perspectives of developers, distributors, users and lawyers. In Furnell, S.M. and Clarke, N.L. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International symposium on human aspects of information security and assurance (HAISA 2015), 1-3 July 2015, Mytilene, Greece. Plymouth: Plymouth University, pages 276-285.

• Conference Name: 9th International symposium on human aspects of information security and assurance (HAISA 2015)
• Conference Location: Mytilene, Greece
• Start Date: Jul 1, 2015
• End Date: Jul 3, 2015
• Acceptance Date: May 11, 2015
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2015
• Deposit Date: Dec 6, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 6, 2021
• Publisher: University of Plymouth
• Pages: 276-285
• ISBN: 9781841023885
• Keywords: Digital rights management (DRM); Human computer interaction; Computer games; Video games; Systems security; Privacy; User perspectives
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1446667