To solve the problem of copyright violation of digital contents, it has been developing and using DRM (Digital Right Management). However, it is not only insufficient situation to satisfy all demand of market yet but also the technology demanded by various market circumstance is changing. This manuscript has shortly introduced the protection technology for digital contents and looked over the direction for development and faced subjects in DRM industry. First, it introduced fingerprinting technology which is capable of tracing illegal duplication by embedding the user's information among the contents as the supplement of DRM technology. Also, we looked over the protection of broadcast contents as an example about the adaption of existing DRM system in the situation which has been changing to digital convergence circumstance. Finally, we shortly looked over standardization of the protection technology and discussed the eventual direction of coping with the situation of industry such as the problem of interoperability between the standards.