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Biographical Information

克里斯托弗·利维

Chairman, Digital Media Management Working Group

克里斯托弗·利维 is regarded as one of the world's experts in Digital Rights Management technologies and the use of DRM to market, monetize and monitor digital media content.  As a high-profile DRM evangelist, Levy regularly speaks and writes about the technology and was recently nominated to be a Digital Media MVP [微软 Valued Professional] by 微软 with a specific focus on DRM. He is currently the CEO and Founder of BuyDRM, a pay-media services provider whose flagship product KeyOS is in use by a wide variety of content owners and licensees. BuyDRM is a 微软 Preferred DRM Provider and is privately held with offices in Austin, Los Angeles and New York and development offices in Eastern Europe.   Levy began his career in Digital Media in 1994 when he launched a WebCast services company in Austin, Texas providing on-site production and encoding technology to Mark Cuban's AudioNet and several Content Delivery Networks. After selling the company, ClickHear Productions, 1999年加入CMGI, Levy co-invented and led to market "streamOS", the industry's first 流媒体 Overlay System delivering 流媒体 across multiple Content Delivery Networks. streamOS was used by MSN to webcast Madonna to 9 Million viewers making it the largest webcast in history until 2005's Live 8 Webcast. Levy has provided Digital Media Vision to a top-shelf list of clients including Casbah Productions LLC [Responsible for Live 8 and the AOL/XM Radio/AEG joint-venture Network Live] Interscope Records, IslandDefJam记录, 安海斯-布希, NFL的电影, 皇家唱片公司, 国会记录,  The Museum of Television and Radio, 微软, 英特尔和其他公司. Levy is a featured industry writer and speaker and has been featured in print and online with ABC新闻.com, StreamingMedia.com, eContent 杂志, Klixxx 杂志, and others and has spoken at DRM Strategies, Jupiter's Plug.In, NAB, NATPE, 流媒体 East and West, 数字好莱坞, 内容的世界, Internext / IA2000, 吃我, South By Southwest and the iHollywood Forum.

Articles for 克里斯托弗·利维

什么是消费者DRM?

As 2018 nears to a close and with the largest IBC ever just wrapped last week, three key movements in the Digital Rights Management market have come to light. In the first scenario we see a massive movement towards standardized containers like FMP4 in HLS and CMAF for the deployment of "Consumer DRM" including Apple FairPlay, Google Widevine and 微软 PlayReady.

DRM启发

Reports of DRM's death have been greatly exaggerated. If anything, it's more important than ever. Here's a look at the leading DRM technologies, as well as a glimpes into DRM's future.
碰头.12月. 6, 作者:克里斯托弗·利维

Sometimes the Simplest DRM Solutions are the Best

Here’s how you can use simple file-level DRM with the 微软 Windows Media format to protect your content and maybe even make some money.

DRM Solutions: Who Holds The Keys To The Future of 流媒体

The market is seeing a clear and concise movement by the world’s biggest electronic, software and hardware manufacturers towards securing their future with a DRM solution bundled in their offering. Apple, 微软 and Sony Fight The Last Great Battle On The Web. 作者:克里斯托弗·利维

Making Money with 流媒体

At a very low level DRM systems provide a lock and key for your content. Using extrapolations of this concept, DRM platforms are able to provide more and more complex marketing and sales vehicles which webmasters can utilize to increase the reach of their businesses.作者:克里斯托弗·利维