Utility-Analytic Approach and Swarm Simulations of Security Policies in Digital Rights Management

Abstract

DRM (Digital Rights Management) Ecosystem to date lacks of a multi-participant trust for stakeholders, which are involved in Contents Provider, Rights Provider and End User, as has significantly negative impacts on DRM-enabled contents value chain's survivable. In order to establish the trust, a utility-analytic and non-cooperative game approach to the optimal adoption of cost-effective security policies was employed. A series of Swarm-based simulation experiments were highlighted, both considering a generic DRM application scenario on the contents acquisition, and discussing different sharing modes' influences on the adoption strategies of typical security policies for a much more complicated scenario on the contents sharing. The simulation results manifest that the enhanced security policies combination are not necessarily rational under any circumstance for the former scenario, and the optimal combination and its precondition are represented. Besides, the best modest sharing mode would spur consumer and contents provider to earn the maximum benefits, as is based on the given optimal security policies profile.