On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 10:29 +0100, David Johnston wrote: > 2009/6/18 Phil Lewis <[email protected]> > > This shouldn't be a problem from a rights perspective AFAIK. > Currently > all web based iPlayer content (including the 3200 kbps HD > streams) is > delivered without any DRM. RTMP is not DRM or content > protection. > > RTMP may not be DRM, but I it's close enough to serve that purpose, > and it does so rather well!
IMHO, RTMP is not DRM at all. With RTMP there is no rights management, encryption, crypto signing, registration of players, conditional access, etc. OK, it is 'Digital' but that is about as close as it gets! The only purpose it seems to serve is its proprietary nature making it harder to interoperate with unless you are adobe who have not yet published the specs. However, adobe have aanounced in January that they will be releasing the RTMP specs this year some time. Maybe they are just running scared after all this HTML5/canvas threat to their dominance of the video streaming market. Maybe they see it as a threat also to their wanting to also dominate the digital TV market with flash et. al. ? > Embedded ogg would lower that barrier quite significantly, something I > imagine the rights-holders would not be best pleased with. The same rights holders probably didn't like VCRs either - or digital terrestrial tv broadcasting. :Phil > > -dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
