Content and Service Protection for IPTV

Content or service delivered through IPTV is high quality and of high economic value accordingly. As digital technologies progress, illegal copy and redistribution of IPTV content become easier and simpler. Therefore it is required to protect IPTV content or service. In this paper, following the approaches taken by ITU-T IPTV Focus Group, we analyze the security threats and requirements. We also discuss related issues and solutions for IPTV. Specially, interoperability issues among different content and service protection systems are addressed.