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Maybe I have no idea of what I'm talking about, but my understanding over how this "Media and Piracy" plot has gone is: - Media purchase was inconvenient and
by AYBABTME 13y ago
Maybe I have no idea of what I'm talking about, but my understanding over how this "Media and Piracy" plot has gone is:
- Media purchase was inconvenient and overly expensive.
- People pirated because it was convenient and cheap.
- Streaming services offered convenient, low cost
solutions.
- People 'stopped' pirating because streaming is a decent,
convenient legal alternative.
At least that's how I've (and everybody I've asked about) gone through it. So in that perspective, it seems to be a useless attempt at defending from a fading threat.
- alkonaut 13y agoI have the same feeling. But like I have tried to explain elsewhere: live streamed events (expensive sports broadcasts) are really sensitive to piracy. At least if you judge by the precautions they use. Today they typically use PlayReady DRM in a Silverlight video player (flash based solutions also exist). They usually also randomly insert subscriber id:s as text at regular intervals and random locations in the video stream thereby watermarking it and making it a risk for whoever decides to re-stream their screen. So the current situation is this: the broadcasters already have several methods of protection (Watermarking, Encryption), which means any technology we wish they would adapt better support at least what they have today.