Amazon plugs video leak flaw
Amazon has plugged a potentially revenue-draining flaw in its video streaming service by incorporating content encryption. Previously, elements of the service - powered by streaming media server technology from Adobe - relied on video player instructions to control how content was delivered. That left a loophole. Tests by …
Speaking of video leaks
(...but not Amazon...)
when is el Reg going to cover the new improved iPlayer service that seems to have been a "side effect" of the move of the content delivery service from Akamai to Level 3?
With content at Akamai, everybody and their dog could (with a little effort) turn an iPlayer stream into something they could download and save for posterity, just like you can with a PVR or DAB radio or whatever non-PC-based tool was favoured for the particular content.
Now at Level 3, all the usual mechanisms for converting from iPlayer stream to MP4 file or whatever seem to be broken. Was this the real reason for moving to L3 - that Akamai couldn't/wouldn't make the content security changes that L3 seem to have made?
It could be more interesting to more folk than yet another Wikipedia article ;)
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