Secustream Technologies develops ‘second-by-second’ digital content protection system

September 3, 2007 – Norwegian startup Secustream Technologies has announced that it has developed a new ‘second-by-second’ content protection system, called SecuShow.

The patent-pending system is designed to make piracy of streaming digital content much more difficult by assigning a series of completely random media keys to each second of digital content being streamed via IPTV, PCs or other pay-per-view and on-demand set-top systems.  The keys have no relationship to each other and are streamed separately over a low-bandwidth connection from a security server.

“We looked at the source of today’s digital-rights-management headaches – automated attacks – and set out how to solve that problem,” said Gisle Østereng, company founder and CEO.  “SecuShow provides unique protection for each second of content playback, making it incredibly time-consuming to break.  It would be like one thief trying to break into a thousand different banks with a thousand different security systems, instead of one bank with one system.”