ABSTRACT
Using the content responsibly is somewhat selfpoliced by the users and vendors, although there are ways to preclude custom content from ending up in someone else’s show as a media server moves from one tour to another. Mark Hunt, Electronics and Software Engineer at PRG in Birmingham, England, explained two ways that the company is addressing potential license breach problems:
“All our content is encrypted and can only be played on a genuine, licensed MBox. We make our encryption available to our clients, so they can protect their content in the same way. This protects against casual theft from an unattended unit, and it keeps our stock content providers happy, too. All of our media servers are ‘cleaned’ between rentals, so there is no risk of us giving a client’s custom content away accidentally.”
