Intertrust Technologies Corporation and Samsung Electronics have partnered to expand digital rights management (DRM) standardisation for digital media.
Under the agreement, Samsung, will ship Marlin DRM software in its HbbTV 2.0-enabled smart TVs for users in Italy.
HbbTV 2.0 is an open standard that allows adopters to combine traditional IPTV services with new over the top internet video distribution. The solution will be available in early 2017 to video service providers in Italy, where both companies enjoy a strong partnership with TivuOn!, a joint venture owned by Mediaset, RAI, and Telecom Italia.
Intertrust and Samsung are both founders of the Marlin DRM open standard, which is used in Europe, China and Japan. DRM technology is an essential ingredient in music and video Internet distribution and allows content and service providers to monetize and protect their assets and services.
Intertrust has created a set of products for Marlin DRM from software SDKs to cloud services and software and hardware tamper resistance technologies and partnerships that meet the approval of Hollywood’s strictest security standards.
TivuOn! launched in July 2016 using Marlin DRM and technology from the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP). TivuOn! has announced plans to transition to HbbTV 2.0 in 2017.
“We warmly welcome this announcement,” said Alberto Sigismondi, chief executive officer of Tivù.
“We designed the TivùOn! Platform with a strong emphasis on open standards to provide our viewers with the richest set of cost-effective and futureproof products and services. The Intertrust-Samsung partnership is a major step in ensuring that our viewers in Italy enjoy an outstanding experience, and we look forward to other European broadcasters and service providers following the use of open standards in this way.”
“Intertrust and Samsung have worked together for years to build Marlin, an open standard for DRM, that brings together the world’s leading consumer electronics companies with Intertrust’s expertise in distributed secure systems and standardization,” said Talal G. Shamoon, Intertrust’s CEO.
“The adoption of Marlin DRM in national ecosystems in Italy, the United Kingdom, and in China and Japan is a clear demonstration of how open systems resonate well with those who wish to provide consumers with products and services that are not dependent on the technology agendas of large proprietary platform providers.”