“Adobe has rejiggered its DRM software for the Flash platform, combining a number of access control features under the rubric of Flash Access 2.0. The new platform can give content providers all sorts of ways to offer media content securely, including controlling what type of output devices can display the content – in effect, Adobe is enabling HDCP and broadcast control flags for Flash content.”
.. and this is why sites like hulu will most likely never go with “naked” h.264 and will always hide their contents behind flash conteiner.
google doesnt seem to mind people downloading youtube clips and it is currently very easy to do that with firefox extensions and they could go with “naked” h.264 but i do not see other major “commercial” content providers going with this route.
On the subject of downloading clips on YouTube… I do that all the time, download my favorites. Just to have ’em in the future. Yet, I still regularly visit YouTube and watch (and download) more. More convenience for me, as well as protection in case YouTube decides to pull them or I end up without the Internet for a while… yet they still get regular website hits from me.
Okay, okay… I do block all ads and only allow scripting that is absolutely required for the proper functioning of YouTube and its videos. So I guess it’s not a complete win for them. But it’s my computer, my Web browser, set up to do things the way I like. That’s my right.
Adobe can shove their HDCP-enabled Flash up their ass. No, actually, they can shove Flash up their ass, period. Flash sucks.
Hulu is a consortium of media companies and they could care less if you hate Flash. It meets their needs and has a 97% install base.
YouTube’s video rental service uses Flash as well.
Flash isn’t going anywhere.
Neither was the floppy.
We should give Adobe a break, clearly they have the end-user’s best interests in mind. HTML5 is obviously just a façade to hide the corporate interests of Google who want to restrict what users can do on the web.
end-users? you mean the content providers, the users of adobe’s content creation toolsets?
I think you missed the irony, or maybe I am missing your irony. Blah.