WisePlay DRM is a relatively new branch on the tree of DRM technologies available to audio and video services and is being developed and marketed by Huawei Technologies. [https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/hms/huawei-wiseplay]. Momentum has grown rapidly around this offering recently, primarily driven by the current US sanctions policy deployed against Huawei. The implication of these sanctions is that none of Huawei’s products can include US sourced technology – and especially not US sourced cryptographic technology such as that included in the major DRM implementations from Widevine, Microsoft and Apple. Without being able to offer DRM protection in the client devices, all major video entertainment services would effectively be unusable on Huawei phone and tablet devices - which at present represents nearly 20% of the world market (globally number one ahead of Samsung and Apple). WisePlay is a Huawei home-grown client DRM technology that is built into those millions of Huawei devices and that offers an alternative to the US DRM sources. Significantly, this is not a wholly proprietary concept, but inherits the credibility of the broader and long-running ChinaDRM standards initiative [http://www.chinadrmlab.org/] driven by the Academy of Broadcasting Science of China. Operationally, WisePlay adopts many of the features and functions of the other major DRM vendors. Media content can be packaged and streamed in DASH-fMP4, HLS-fMP4, and HLS-TS formats with standard encryption schemes that include CENC, AES128-CTR, and AES128-CBC. Because of this standards foundation, particularly support for Common Encryption (CENC), a single stream can be protected in such a way that player devices can use their own embedded DRM scheme to obtain DRM licenses. With multi-DRM packaged content Huawei devices can play back such streams using their WisePlay DRM client just as easily as Samsung devices can use Widevine to see the same content. Additionally, as you might expect from a high-tech giant like Huawei, WisePlay uses hardware-based security mechanisms in the device DRM code to provide security levels that meet or exceed the requirements set by major content licensees like the Hollywood studios. When built within a multi-DRM service such as EZDRM Universal DRM, the use of the WisePlay technology is almost completely transparent and enables video service delivery to Huawei devices in parallel with devices of other mainstream vendors.