In a recent note, David Woolley said: > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 07:22:12 +0100 (BST) > > Many audio files, and I think .asf are amongst those, are intended only > to be streamed in real time. One reason for that is almost certainly > copyright control (digital rights management); the owners of the content > are probably prepared for it to be listened to in real time, where it > can be accounted for, and removed from the system completely, but not > for it to be served in a form where it can be saved and redistributed. > This should be easy enough to defeat with a logging proxy.
> The more user oriented advantage of streaming is that the contents of > the stream can be tweaked to account for the exact bandwidth available. > Interesting. Can they monitor the transfer rate and adjust the compression dynamically? I believe I've seen clients that ask as part of a configuration step that the user enter the connection speed. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
