Credit Based Micro Licensing Scheme for Digital Services

Abstract

Digital piracy poses a serious threat to majority of digital content and services, whether available offline or over the Internet. To combat against piracy, various licensing models are in practice. Further, with the proliferation of smart gadgets, distribution of digital contents becomes more prudent in multiple forms. In this work, we propose a new scheme of licensing to utilize licenses at micro level and to re-utilize un-used licenses for future transactions. Our licensing scheme allows effective utilization of licenses and is especially suited in the scenarios of catering digital services.