[streaming] Re: Enterprise Ready Streaming On-Demand Server

[Christophe Massiot]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006, Daniel Wells wrote:
> Thanks for the response.  My thoughts about the DRM is that there will always be an analog loophole.  We can modify VLC to restrict its capabilities for direct saving, couldn't we?  And if VLC was modified to require authentication to view our feeds, you would think it would be as good as any DRM.

If you distribute a modified version of VLC, you have to distribute the
modified sources as well, because VLC is under the GPL license. This
means that an educated user will be able to re-add what you removed from
VLC. Makes DRM quite pointless.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.

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