Looney Tunes: Exposing the Lack of DRM Protection in Indian Music Streaming Services
Ahaan Dabholkar, Sourya Kakarla, Dhiman Saha

TL;DR
This paper systematically analyzes the DRM security of major Indian music streaming platforms, revealing significant vulnerabilities that could facilitate piracy and impact revenue, by benchmarking against Spotify's DRM system.
Contribution
First comprehensive security analysis of Indian OTT music streaming services, identifying flaws and proposing mitigation strategies, highlighting the inadequacy of current DRM protections.
Findings
Identified critical security flaws in Indian music streaming DRM systems
Demonstrated the ease of content theft from these platforms
Confirmed that security through obscurity is ineffective
Abstract
Numerous studies have shown that streaming is now the most preferred way of consuming multimedia content and this is evidenced by the proliferation in the number of streaming service providers as well as the exponential growth in their subscriber base. Riding on the advancements in low cost electronics, high speed communication and extremely cheap data, Over-The-Top (OTT) music streaming is now the norm in the music industry and is worth millions of dollars. This is especially true in India where major players offer the so called freemium models which have active monthly user bases running in to the millions. These services namely, Gaana, Airtel Wynk and JioSaavn attract a significantly bigger audience than their 100% subscription based peers like Amazon Prime Music, Apple Music etc. Given their ubiquity and market dominance, it is pertinent to do a systematic analysis of these…
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Taxonomy
TopicsDigital Rights Management and Security · Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques · Cinema and Media Studies
