Digital rights management in consumer electronics products

In the current CE environment, there are many activities in content protection and DRM, which could lead to a situation with many (conflicting) standards and unnecessary limitations on the flow of content over various devices. As a result, the main challenge in the CE environment is to develop DRM solutions that allow interacceptable exchange of content that is acquired via any of the main distribution channels to the customer. To achieve this, a number of important architectural and research issues have to be resolved. Solutions can only emerge through tight cooperation between the stakeholders and through the development of open standards.