ByteShield raises angel funding for DRM
ByteShield, the creator of a digital rights management (DRM) platform for games and software, has raised an undisclosed amount of angel funding from Gylling Investment AB and other investors.
DRM, which restricts your ability to copy or use a piece of software or media in the interest of protecting copyright, is controversial among consumers because it can lead to a restricted and inferior product. For example, I never buy music from the iTunes store anymore, because I get DRM-free MP3s from Amazon. DRM protections are also frequently cracked.
San Francisco-based ByteShield says its solution takes care of both problems, first by having no effect on “honest” users, because it allows multiple installations and activations, and second by removing multiple pieces of code from the software it’s protecting, and only replacing those pieces at runtime. That makes the DRM much harder to crack, the company says.
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