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For subscription based services, is there a reason not to just use html5 streaming video with something like http://www.wowza.com/media-server http://www.wowza.
by etherael 15y ago
For subscription based services, is there a reason not to just use html5 streaming video with something like http://www.wowza.com/media-server http://www.wowza.com/media-server ? This should work fine and circumvent all the flash / silverlight problems whilst still being DRM'd.
I know of at least one spotify competitor using this exact setup to fit both the mandatory DRM'd streams from major labels and still allow streaming to flash / silverlight barren environments.
- Chris_Newton 15y agoIf we do wind up using DRM, I expect we'll be doing something fairly similar to what you described there. But then you're still serving to Flash/Silverlight/Apple proprietary/etc. rather than using HTML5 video, and you're back to the questions of whether using DRMish technology would adversely affect legitimate customers and whether the cost of setting it up is justified by the returns from any reduction in piracy. Isn't that where we came in? :-)
- etherael 15y agoNot really, I'm still convinced that DRM is completely counterproductive, but with regards to criticisms of flash/silverlight being short-sighted because these are necessary components of essential DRM solutions, the fact that those solutions can be done without flash/silverlight would seem to discount that.