AuthenTec (AUTH)

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The fact that both the license and content can be stored offline sounds like a major breakthrough. A media file could be stored on a memory card and couldn't be copied. Put that together with fingerprint authentication and you have a billion dollar business.

Here is the first part of the news:

AuthenTec (NASDAQ:AUTH), a leading provider of mobile and network security and identity management solutions, ConDel Technologies, a leading content delivery solution provider, and A-Unions, an application service provider (ASP) in Taiwan, announced today that they have teamed to create Secure Removable Media (SRM) content distribution service. ConDel will incorporate AuthenTec’s DRM Fusion client and server solution to protect multimedia content stored on ConDel memory sticks and microSD cards to be offered by A-Unions. ConDel and AuthenTec will help ensure that A-Unions’ music, movies, e-books, and augmented reality content stored on SRM can only be played by authorized users and cannot be copied.

SRM provides an innovative way for content distributors to offer their content securely. Both license and content are stored on the device, thereby enabling offline content protection without the need to deliver a license to play the content. ConDel will produce USB memory sticks and MicroSD cards that include AuthenTec’s DRM Client supporting the Secure Removable Media feature of Open Mobile Alliance (OMA2.1) DRM standard and a DRM-enabled media player. AuthenTec is also providing its DRM Fusion Server to A-Unions for ensuring that their valuable content is protected on the server and also for license management. A-Unions will offer its ASP service to subscribers in Q4 2011.

news link:
http://www.authentec.com/News/ViewNews/tabid/473/ArticleId/426/AuthenTec-ConDel-Technologies-and-A-Unions-to-Demonstrate-Innovative-Content-Protection-Solution-for.aspx