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Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash

Posted by vainrveenr on · 3 comments
Gnash Project; By Seth Schoen 		Mail this story
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The immense popularity of sites like YouTube has unexpectedly turned Flash Video (FLV) into one of the de facto standards for Internet video. The proliferation of sites using FLV has been a boon for remix culture, as creators made their own versions of posted videos. And thus far there has been no widespread DRM standard for Flash or Flash Video formats; indeed, most sites that use these formats simply serve standalone, unencrypted files via ordinary web servers. Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that with the introduction of DRM restrictions in version 9 of its Flash Player and version 3 of its Flash Media Server software.

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Comments (3)

tuxchick ·
You almost have to admire the stubborn determination to cling to a proven-failure of a business model.
ColonelPanik ·
Maybe these computers should just go away.

TC: I have deleted MONO (took a whole wagon- load of stuff with it) so should I dump flash ?
tuxchick ·
I don't know if you should dump Flash, Colonel, that's up to you.

The computers are OK, it's the dratted humans that complicate everything.

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