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This is a great idea, but I think Adobe might not want to open source it because they have sold Flash to content companies as a way to lock their streaming cont
by illumin8 16y ago
This is a great idea, but I think Adobe might not want to open source it because they have sold Flash to content companies as a way to lock their streaming content down with DRM. Opening the specs and allowing anyone to play DRM content would let the "evil pirates" get their hands on all that sweet, sweet booty. By booty I mean streaming episodes of Hulu...
- andybak 16y agoAre you saying that an it's impossible technically to have an open source DRM format? I'm not sure that follows, does it?
- cookiecaper 16y agoThe benefit from preventing the death of the Flash format is greater than the benefit from not pissing media companies off, first of all. Secondly, as stated, the DRM components should be possible to open if they're properly implemented. There are many open implementations of PGP et al that are open and PGP hasn't lost anything from that. If their DRM is hacky/not good, then yes, open-sourcing would probably be bad for that component. But DRM is a rather small part of the overall Flash ecosystem, and if they don't get the Player completely open, they are going to lose meaningful revenue from Flash completely relatively soon.