I had serious doubts that AuthenTec was going to do anything with the SafeNet DRM product lines other than support existing customers, but this announcement dispels that doubt.
Usually this many acquisitions in so short a time implies deals that are euphemistically called “asset sales” and an acquiring company that lets the technology wither and die. These assets included a multi-DRM framework called DRM Fusion and OMA DRM software - acquired respectively from DMDSecure of the Netherlands in 2005 and Beep Science of Norway in 2008. The common theme among these announcements was support for Microsoft’ PlayReady DRM on the Android and Apple iOS platforms.ĪuthenTec, a company based in Florida whose main business is fingerprint readers (as in human fingerprints, not digital ones), acquired DRM assets from SafeNet a year ago.
Three vendors of DRM technology made announcements timed to this week’s huge NAB conference in Las Vegas: AuthenTec, BuyDRM, and Discretix.
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