What I'm seeing here is there's an opportunity for someone to step up with the right product, business and marketing plan and own DRM as it's still wide open.
I also tend to agree with Doug. There's a huge investment in time to wrap these videos and if you dont have the ability to serve the licenses yourself, you could find your entire library rendered worthless overnight because your DRM provider went tits up.
We take this same risk with our processors, but the difference with processors is you just cut in a different join page. The idea of rewrapping thousands of hours of video is not pleasant.
Whether you are into the drama or not, this does make it important to consider how the DRM companies and their owners conduct their business as part of whether you hook up with them or not regardless of how technically proficient their product is.
Best I can tell, no one is offering to sell you a run-your-own license server deal.
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