Thread: DRM Troubles at Apple
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Old 10-03-2011, 05:52 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
This points out a problem with streaming services generally - while it may have been Apple's DRM server that went down this time*, it could just have easily been the content server or account server or credit card processing server that went down.

*Although the theory in the article is that Apple's "DRM server" went down, I don't know if Apple has a dedicated DRM server - I would think that they would have multiple redundant servers for DRM, and that the problem is more complicated than just a server going down.
I might be wrong on 1 or 2 of the players, but I believe Apple uses Microsoft and Google resources for their cloud storage.
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