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sorry, how is flash content save from being copied? As soon as, I can display it on my screen I can record it. It can be even easily scripted (a friend of mine
by kgarten 16y ago
sorry, how is flash content save from being copied?
As soon as, I can display it on my screen I can record it. It can be even easily scripted (a
friend of mine did sth. like that for a streaming page a while back). Also flash or any proprietary plugin solution won't help you. As soon as it gains any traction, there will be "save video" plugins for firefox, chrome etc.
Is this really a problem? If you are scared about smb. stealing your content, you probably shouldn't put it on the Internet ;)
- MediaBehavior 16y agoWell, one can hardly expect the OP to attend to that. After all his by-line is: "SERGE JESPERS - Life as an Adobe platform evangelist"
- powrtoch 16y agoAgreed: if you can watch it, you can save it. Also, as a point of interest: Last I checked, Netflix (Silverlight based streaming) serves up its videos in a series of tiny chunks (you can look at this with e.g. Safari's Activity window). I don't know if this is done with security in mind or just for practical/bandwidth reasons, but it seems like it would at least add a little hassle to the task of saving the video.
- statictype 16y agoIf you are scared about smb. stealing your content, you probably shouldn't put it on the Internet ;) Tell that to the big broadcasting sites like NBC or The Daily Show. Even though its technically possible to save their videos right now, they would be extremely reluctant to switch to a mechanism that would make it downright trivial. Finally, it could end up being the iOS and Android mobile devices that push content providers towards HTML 5, figuring the benefits of streaming to mobiles offsets the perceived downside of making video easy to save to disk.
- blinks 16y agoProtect static content behind authentication? Hosting static files naked is almost _asking_ for them to be hotlinked.