Setting up an account with a license provider
A license provider must issue the licenses for the content that you protect. You must set up an account with a license provider that supports Windows Media Encoder. After you have set up an account, the license provider creates a DRM profile with the following information for you. Then, you can use it to protect your content.
- A license key seed. For each file or stream you want to protect, the seed is used to generate a key to encrypt the content. This value is also used by the license provider to regenerate this key and include it in a license, which is used by the user's player to decrypt the content.
- Two license acquisition URLs. Players can support different versions of Microsoft DRM technology: Windows Media Rights Manager version 1 or 7. Therefore, different license acquisition URLs are used that correspond to each version. Each license acquisition URL points to the page on the license provider's Web site where a license can be acquired and is included in the header of your protected content. When the user plays the protected content, the player opens the appropriate license acquisition URL to get a license.
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