CableLabs Approves DTCP-IP Content Protection for Digital Cable Products
August 30, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (CableLabs) approved the Digital Transmission Copy Protection-Internet Protocol (DTCP-IP) technology for protection of cable content using IP for unidirectional and bidirectional digital cable products.
The approval permits CableLabs licensees under the DFAST technology agreement, the CableCARD-Host Interface (CHILA) license agreement and the Downloadable Conditional Access System (DCAS) license agreement to protect pay-per-view and video-on-demand (VOD) transmissions against unauthorized copying and unauthorized Internet retransmission while assuring consumers' ability to record broadcast and subscription programming in digital formats for personal use, according to CableLabs.
Using DTCP-protected secure links among consumer electronics devices, cable subscribers will be able to access digital cable programming including high-definition (HD) and VOD cable content on consumer electronics devices and personal computers on digital home networks.
CableLabs worked on this approval with Paramount Pictures Corp., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., the Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros. Technical Operations and the Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator (DTLA) LLC, which licenses the DTCP-IP technology.
DTLA and CableLabs also agreed to several forward-looking provisions to implement the new developments and facilitate new business models including:
- DTLA will offer cable operators and other multichannel video service providers a new operator participant agreement that provides participation in the DTLA change management process.
- CableLabs and DTLA will update their respective specifications and license provisions as necessary to ensure effective revocation and renewal.
- With respect to "copy never" content, DTLA will make available to cable operators the same level of protection, functionality and treatment of content that DTLA adopts to obtain approval by the Advanced Access Content System, Licensing Authority (AACS-LA), the licensor of content protection technology used for Blu-Ray and HD DVDs.
- DTLA and CableLabs also agreed to discuss potential extension of DTCP capabilities for other business models for cable operators.
In conjunction with this agreement, DTLA withdrew a related petition at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). CableLabs previously approved DTCP for protection of content over the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1394 interface.
Source: Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (CableLabs).