DRM Paradiso is a unique Digitial Rights Management (DRM) system 
which allows customers who buy music (or other digital content) 
from an online distribution store to also buy rights to resell 
the song to his friends in a controlled manner!

Research related to this was carried out as part of Ph.D. work of
Srijith Nair (https://srijith.net) at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

The source code included here was used to implement a working
prototype of the DRM scheme on a Neuros OSD Board.

More details are available at https://srijith.net/vu/paradiso/

Academic articles published related to this work:

[1] Mohammad T. Dashti, Srijith K. Nair and Hugo L. Jonker
"Nuovo DRM Paradiso:Designing a Secure, Verified Fair DRM Scheme"
Fundamentae Informatica (FI), IOS Press, 89, pp. 1--25, 2008

[2] Srijith K. Nair, Ron Gerrits, Bruno Crispo, Andrew S. Tanenbaum
"Turning Teenagers into Stores", IEEE Computer, vol. 41, no. 2, 
pp. 58-62, Feb., 2008

[3] Mohammad T. Dashti, Srijith K. Nair, Hugo L. Jonker, 
"Nuovo DRM Paradiso: Towards a Verified Fair DRM Scheme"
Proceedings of IPM International Symposium on Fundamentals of Software 
Engineering (FSEN07), pp. 33-48, April 17-19 2007, Tehran, Iran.

[4] Hugo Jonker, Srijith Krishnan Nair, Mohammad Torabi Dashti,
"Nuovo DRM Paradiso: towards a verified fair DRM protocol", 
1st Benelux Workshop on Information and System Security (WISSEC2006),
November 8-9, 2006, Antwerpen, Belgium. 

[5] Nuovo DRM Paradiso: Formal specification and verification of a DRM protocol 
H. Jonker, S. Krishnan Nair and M. Torabi Dashti
Technical Report IR-CS-019, Vrije Universiteit, March 2006.

[6] Srijith K. Nair, Bogdan C. Popescu, Chandana Gamage, Bruno Cripso, 
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, "Enabling DRM-preserving Digital Content Redistribution"
Proceedings of 7th International IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology 2005