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RMTP license is pretty interesting as it among other things prohibits circumvention of "technological measures for the protection of audio, video and/or data co

by qplex 8y ago

RMTP license is pretty interesting as it among other things prohibits circumvention of "technological measures for the protection of audio, video and/or data content" Also things like ad injection are not features for the end user. RMTP is a proprietary protocol developed by Adobe so it's a good fit when you want to screw your customer with DRM and other stuff.

laumars 8y ago
I don't disagree with your points however it's content owners who decided if content should be DRMed or not, not the end user. Thus you'd find videos delivered via any other protocol (Inc Bittorrent, if that ever became a commercial platform) would also be subject to DRM. Similar point for as injection. You might consider it anti-user however in many cases ads are what pays the bills and thus in traditional "over the air" broadcastering it's actually more important to avoid down time during as as spots than it is during a programme airing because the cost of compensation is greater. Ultimately in professional video delivery you'd have more than one type of customer; obviously you have the consumers watching the content but there is also the people paying for ad slots. Plus in many cases you wouldn't be the content owner so you'd have a third customer who is the person paying for your services to deliver the video. So the features you might consider to be anti-user (and to an extent I don't disagree with you) are still there for paying customers. Or to out things a different way, video engineers would prefer not to add the complication of DRM and as injection into their infrastructure if they didn't have to. As for RMTP being Adobe owned, there are other video delivery protocols around but RMTP tends to be the preferred platform for B to C (broadcaster to consumer). Or at least that is the case in the places I've worked. Eg it wouldnt surprise me if Apple / iTunes did their own thing.

by qplex 8y ago

laumars 8y ago

I don't disagree with your points however it's content owners who decided if content should be DRMed or not, not the end user. Thus you'd find videos delivered via any other protocol (Inc Bittorrent, if that ever became a commercial platform) would also be subject to DRM. Similar point for as injection. You might consider it anti-user however in many cases ads are what pays the bills and thus in traditional "over the air" broadcastering it's actually more important to avoid down time during as as spots than it is during a programme airing because the cost of compensation is greater. Ultimately in professional video delivery you'd have more than one type of customer; obviously you have the consumers watching the content but there is also the people paying for ad slots. Plus in many cases you wouldn't be the content owner so you'd have a third customer who is the person paying for your services to deliver the video. So the features you might consider to be anti-user (and to an extent I don't disagree with you) are still there for paying customers. Or to out things a different way, video engineers would prefer not to add the complication of DRM and as injection into their infrastructure if they didn't have to. As for RMTP being Adobe owned, there are other video delivery protocols around but RMTP tends to be the preferred platform for B to C (broadcaster to consumer). Or at least that is the case in the places I've worked. Eg it wouldnt surprise me if Apple / iTunes did their own thing.