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DTCP, or Digital Transmission Content Protection, which was issued by DTLA (Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator) to protect the multimedia distribution in the Digital Home. It is a form of Digital rights management. There are mappings to FireWire(IEEE-1394), USB and MOST Bus.
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DTCP in a presentation by Intel (http://www.intel.com/idf/us/fall2003/presentations/F03USDGHS86_OS.pdf)
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Protect the rights of content providers and content owners, recognizing their right to be compensated for their intellectual property.
Content owners were rightfully concerned that the new unprotected digital outputs would enable pirates to hijack a digital data stream and create an unlimited number of perfect copies.
Digital terrestrial broadcast is transmitted "in the clear" (unencrypted) and thus can't be protected at the source.
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