Digital rights management for media streaming systems

An open media platform (OMP) for a broadcast entertainment system equipped with a license manager for storing generic broadcast licenses, the OMP for serving a group of subscriber terminals in a geographical area, comprising:

• means for transmitting a license-protected broadcast channel subscribed for by one or more subscriber terminals of the group;
• a license task for receiving from a license manager an authorization/authentication request specifying that a subscriber terminal wishes to receive the license-protected broadcast channel, and for providing the license manager with the license information for the respective authorization/authentication request;
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• a directory with license information specific to each subscriber terminal served by the OMP.

For a broadcast entertainment system equipped with a license manager for storing generic broadcast licenses, and with an open media platform (OMP) for serving a group of subscriber terminals in a geographical area, a subscriber terminal comprising:

• a decoder for decoding encoded multimedia content received over a set of broadcast channels subscribed for by the subscriber terminal;
• a subscriber terminal .nsc process for processing a plurality of locally stored .nsc files, each .nsc file comprising information necessary for accessing and playing a respective broadcast channel of the set;
• a subscriber terminal license process for receiving a personalized broadcast license and using same for decoding encoded multimedia content carried on the respective broadcast channel;
• a license memory for storing the personalized broadcast license;
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• a ST interface for transmitting a request for the personalized broadcast license to the license manager and receiving the personalized broadcast license from the license manager.