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Flash introduces DRM to its online video

Posted by James - 16/09/09 at 12:09:43 pm

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The Flash Player is due to get built-in DRM, sometime soon.  Actually it seems odd that it’s not already in there, but perhaps this means a little more flexibility in Flash video is on the way.  My initial thoughts on hearing about DRM are slightly coloured by the whole issue with music and DRM, but thinking about it, maybe if the Flash Player can handle the DRM itself, we can stop having to stream everything all the bloody time!

Here’s a couple of links, which talk about this announcement in a little more detail;

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About the author: James is a Senior New Media Developer at MMT Digital, and has BA(Hons) in Design for Interactive Media from the University of Gloucestershire. He loves designing and producing all sorts of website and Flash-related things, as well as prattling on about technologies. Day-to-day he works with Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and in his spare time he mucks about in Flex and Wordpress. Follow James on Twitter.

2 Comments »

  1. Cheers for the link back James! I like your thoughts on whether we’d need to stream quite as much as we do right now, if there were DRM in the Flash Player…

    Comment by Jodie — 17 September 2009 #

  2. Indeed. Streaming is good n’all, but sometimes you just don’t have the bandwidth to stream stuff & downloading would be a better option!

    Comment by James — 17 September 2009 #

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