[UPHPU] A Haunt from the past - or - How I came to love DRM -- the new Real Player and multimedia

[jtaber]

Hmmm, is this any different than totem and totem mozilla plugin (which 
come installed in most Linux distros) with additional codecs easily 
installed? (apt-get install ....)  On my Linux laptop any YouTube videos 
just automagically run from web / blog links, as do other formats if 
that's what you are talking about.  So with Linux I don't think you need 
this.  I think there's even some good server-side stuff available to 
serve in different formats.  I would have assumed Windows Media Player 
does the same but haven't used Windows in so long I wouldn't know.  I'm 
also not sure exactly how OSX handles most formats.  I thought DRM stood 
for the Devil's Regulated Media but could be wrong. 

Victor Villa wrote:
> While I know this is a php channel, we do on occasion talk about the merits
> of top posting v bottom posting, CSS and many other things.  If you don't
> have streaming content that needs to be kept protected in any format, don't
> bother reading this unless you want to know about being able to easily take
> vids off youtube, etc (not that you couldn't do so before).
>
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> K, so back to Real Player.
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> Real Player, who I thought was dead except for Real Alternative, turns to
> not be quiet so dead.  In fact, in the next week some time, they are going
> to be releasing a new version that makes it VERY EASY to take MOST kinds of
> video.  You name the format, it's on the list.  The feature set of the
> release targets being able to take videos from youtube, but not through
> reading the source code.  This is a browser plugin and detects the presence
> of video playing and takes it from there.  Further, streaming vid IS NOT
> PROTECTED - I've personally tested RTMP and MMS streaming protocols.
> (curiously, it's not able to detect video encased in an swf file {yet} that
> was playing first in a playlist, but it was able to detect the second thing
> in the playlist was an flv and offered to download during the flv playback)
>
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> Now to save everybody an extra email in their box, I know you could swipe
> vids using a handful of firefox extension or even steal a streaming video
> using a ram dump of some kind, station ripper comes to mind.  But Real
> Player is different.  It puts this tech into the hands of n00bs, and it is
> EASY to use.
>
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> So, for those of you who manage multimedia content, here is an article that
> makes a good starting point.
> http://www.beet.tv/2007/06/adobe_is_not_re.html .   
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> So, here is my question for those of you on the uphpu list.  Who here
> manages multimedia (vids, tutorials etc) that needs to be kept protected,
> and what form of DRM are you using?
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> mj/v
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