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Abstract

A method for distributing multimedia content in a home network, comprising the steps of: broadcasting (14) multimedia content from a headend system (100) to a plurality of home networks (200), each home network (200) comprising a gateway (201) configured to receive multimedia content encrypted using a broadcast content key from the headend system (100) and a plurality of home devices (204, 205) configured to receive multimedia content from the gateway (201); registering (10) the plurality of home devices (201, 204, 205) of a particular home network (200) at a domain controller server (105) by providing identifiers of the home devices (201, 204, 205) to be registered for the particular home network (200); generating (19) a domain content license for a home network (200) on the basis of identifiers of the devices (201, 204, 205) registered for the particular home network (200), the domain content key allowing to encrypt multimedia content such that it can be decrypted by the devices (201, 204, 205) having the particular identifiers; transmitting (20) the domain content license to the gateway (201) of the particular home network (200); in the gateway (201), decrypting (15) the received (14) multimedia content, encrypting (21) the multimedia content using the keys extracted from the domain license and providing the content encrypted by the domain content key to the home devices (204, 205).

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