Widevine for Google

The search giant Google announced that it agreed to acquire Widevine. In its blog post, Google wrote: "With rapidly improving broadband and wireless speeds, more powerful smartphones, and higher resolution screens on devices of all shapes and sizes, it's becoming easier than ever to watch video wherever you want, whenever you want. And while it's still fun to pull an old movie off the shelf and throw it in the DVD player, streaming is rapidly becoming the standard way for you to find the content you want to watch now." Widevine is a Seattle vendor of digital-rights management software, widely used by broadcasters to safely transmit video content online. With Google acquiring it, the search giant can do a better job in protecting copyrighted materials and fending off future lawsuits over copyrighted contents. And by just acquiring Widevine, Google instantly became a dominant player in the market for protecting video content broadcast over the web. This should come useful as the company is already the largest distributor of online video by far with YouTube.