Vitrium Systems

A decade ago, Adobe and future merger partner Glassbook published Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet, a 16,000-word short story, as the first major eBook. Its digital rights management (DRM) failed as hackers hacked, King got mad, Amazon ended up giving it away. The eBook—and DRM—suffered a brutally black eye.

About the same time, iTunes rose and record labels struggled to rein in MP3 music pirates, DRM as a technology got beat up badly, caught in a riptide between freethinking music consumers and bottom-line-oriented copyright owners.

Adobe, somewhat quietly, released a product called Policy Server (currently part of the LiveCycle Enterprise Suite), and later, Digital Editions, to rights-manage documents and eBooks. Even it wasn’t without hitches, as arguments over text-to-speech features erupted between publishers—who reap revenue from audio books—and advocates for visually impaired readers.

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It seems California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s answer to the states $24.3 billion deficit and significant educational budget cuts lies in technology! Instead of raising taxes to pay for the $350 Million in new textbooks for California State Schools, Arnold is looking to move to online textbooks, which costs a fraction of a printed textbook.

Moving to electronic textbooks in PDF format solves a lot of problems, like being cheaper and there are no version issues.  But what about protecting the publishers from textbooks being shared without authorization or copyright issues.  A PDF can be easily forwarded, what is stopping a school from buying one copy of a textbook and copying it for each student?

Do you think electronic textbooks in PDF format is the answer?

In the age where every form of communication is digital and you’re finding more people opting for instant messages versus picking up the telephone, the opportunity for confidential information to get leaked is extremely high!

The consequences for a leaked PDF containing confidential information has gone far beyond the simply slap on the wrist. Companies will face hefty fines and a tainted reputation in the market place as being insecure.

There are ways to combat this issue and avoid the embarrassment of having company info leaked. Protectedpdf offers and PDF Protection and Tracking solution that is a perfect fit for this costly problem. Protectedpdf is a reader friendly PDF Protection solution that does not require any software downloads. Your reader will simply enter in their credentials and have access to the information. Also, with protectedpdf you can track how many times the PDF has been opened and by who.

Protectedpdf puts an end to these embarrassing leaks that are costing companies millions! To get your no risk free trial today check out www.protectedpdf.com

I read the article  posted on April 20th, 2009 – “Who benefits from DRM?”

While I agree with the article in principle, I’m not convinced that DRM is all “bad.”  I do, however, believe the underlying philosophy behind DRM and how DRM solutions are sold is seriously flawed.

The Facts:

• Publishers and distributors of electronic content have the right to protect their IP and their profits.
• Readers of electronic content have the right to own what they purchase and enjoy a hassle-free experience.

The Problem:

• The “all-or-nothing” approach to DRM.
• The lack of thought leadership in this space.
• The dishonesty and lack of disclosure.

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For those of us who build software, creating a new software product is usually fun and exciting. There are new challenges, the opportunity to use new tools and techniques, and there is a special thrill of seeing something work for the first time. But unless you have the luxury of building software solely for your own entertainment, once you’ve got that great new product built, you have to figure out how to get it to your customers. At Vitrium, much of the software that we build is web-based, so the issue of delivering software to our users is really just one of ensuring browser compatibility.

But if you work at a company that delivers software for the desktop, you typically have to build an installer — a second piece of software whose job is to get your actual software successfully running on the users’ machines. There is no joy in writing in installers. I’ve worked at companies where we had to build installers for our software, and it’s amazing how much time and effort was required to build and maintain them.

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By Nettie Hartsock, Planet PDF

Vitrium Systems has just released the latest version of its’ protectedpdf SBE software. This protectedpdf SBE release is the first DRM solution that does not require readers to download and install either a plug-in for Adobe Reader or a third-party proprietary viewer.

Find out what other benefits SBE has to offer PDF publishers – Vitrium Systems Releases Web-Based protectedpdf Small Business Edition

TalkTech Interview with Vitrium: Enhance Your PDFs with DRM, Tracking and Analytics

By Small Business Trends

The Vancouver, B.C. based Vitrium is now the only company offering SaaS PDF protection that does not require readers to download and install either a plug-in for Adobe Reader or a third-party proprietary viewer. SBE makes it quick, easy and economical to protect PDFs from misuse. The service is accessed entirely via the Internet and requires no software installations or downloads. Users simply login to the SBE Web site and start protecting PDFs.

Read the full press release Vitrium Introduces DRM Solution for PDF Protection

By Tim Goral, University Business Magazine

One major problem that Universities still must grapple with is protecting copyrighted material passed onto third parties. Different Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions are available, but provide different benefits depending on a particular organization’s requirements. Narayan Sainaney, co-founder of Vitrium Systems, makes it clear that DRM solutions must take into account not only the publisher’s needs, but also the reader’s.

To read the article, go to – All Rights Reserved – IHEs Explore New Ways to Protect Intellectual Property