The EFF Speaks Out On Flash Video DRM

02/21/2008 11:10 am by Flashcomguru.com in FMS
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) Seth Schoen has posted an article on the upcoming - as he calls it - DRM features of Flash Media Server 3.
Make of DRM as a technology what you like but I think the author has missed the point here, or does not understand the purpose of RTMPE, the new encrypted flavor of Adobe's Real Time Messaging Protocol. FMS3 doesn't actually apply any kind of DRM to the video content itself, it merely secures the transmission and thereby circumvents content from being intercepted in transit, a process that's similar to the way that your credit card information is being transmitted to a payment provider when you buy things online - anyone listening in on that transmission will see just garbage that would take years to decrypt.
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