Seth Schoen at the EFF has posted the group’s concerns about the forthcoming implementation of DRM for Flash video. But is it really “DRM” in the strictest sense? Some clarifications from Flashcomguru:
…I think the author has missed the point here, or does not understand the purpose of RTMPE, the new encrypted flavor of Adobe’s Real Time Messaging Protocol. FMS3 doesn’t actually apply any kind of DRM to the video content itself, it merely secures the transmission and thereby circumvents content from being intercepted in transit [...] Lastly, encrypting the delivery channel does not sound like DRM to me, it’s mere access control. Using secure transmissions and token based authentication, this has been done already. All Adobe did in regards to FMS3 is make the SSL-style encryption easier to use and lighter on system resources by using RTMPE.
From Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee:
Adobe won’t be flooding the online video market with DRM anytime soon, though. Its Flash DRM would only be available to customers of Adobe’s expensive Flash Media Server, for which many video-sharing sites decline to pay, and users of the Adobe Media Player, which hasn’t even been released yet.
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