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Introduction

Motto offers digital rights management rules as a way to protect your content from unauthorized access and redistribution. To do this this, we use industry-standard encryption using DRM systems like Widevine, FairPlay, and PlayReady.

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Get Started

You can get started using the Motto Studio, which we recommend for non-technical users. Alternatively, you may get started by using the Motto API.
To enable DRM, first navigate to the “Settings” section in the Motto Studio, and select the “Video protection” tab. Here you can create a new ruleset by clicking the “New ruleset” button, or edit an existing ruleset if you are already applying other protection measures to the same content.In the creation form, you can check the option to enable DRM. In most cases, you can leave the “Hardware-based robustness” setting to “Standard”. If you are streaming more premium content that requires an even higher level of protection (Widevine L1 or PlayReady SL 3000) for higher video qualities (e.g. 1080p and up), you can indicate this by selecting which qualities require this. Keep in mind that these qualities will not be playable by browsers like Chrome and Firefox, as they do not support these levels of protection.
To enable DRM, you must create a video protection ruleset with the drm.enabled property set to true.
Make sure to apply the ruleset to the content you wish to protect by selecting the appropriate target(s). For more information, see selecting a target.

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Impact

Once DRM has been turned on, the devices that your end users use to view your content will need to decrypt the content using a “DRM license”. Motto will automatically generate these licenses for your users and your content, and the Motto video player will handle the decryption process. You may change these settings at any time. However, once you have started your live stream or upload, DRM keys will be provisioned. From that moment on you can no longer turn off DRM for this video. Reach out to us if you have doubts or have a more complex flow in mind.
In order to support Apple devices, which require FairPlay, you must have a valid Apple Developer account and request a Fairplay certificate with them. Without this, playback will fail on Safari browsers, iOS & tvOS apps and Airplay when DRM is enabled.

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Next Steps

Have a look at any of the other rights protection features that Motto offers: