Re: protecting streaming mp3 files with asp.net?

  • From: Jim Dunleavy <jim.dunleavy@xxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:28:53 +0000

Hi Teddy,

The BBC's web-based radio player is quite accessible.
You can try it at www.bbc.co.uk,
pick a channel, select the "listen again" link, select a radio program.
That player streams realplayer audio but bypassing the player and ripping
the stream to your hard drive is trivial, so it's no protection against
downloading but only gives a fig-leaf of protection and raises your
implementation costs.

--Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: Octavian Rasnita <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: protecting streaming mp3 files with asp.net?


> I think this has no copyright relations. Copyright is something enforced
by
> law while this type of protection is a technical protection.
>
> The persons that need to use this type of protection usually care more
about
> money than about accessibility for the blind or about usability and their
> first goal is to force the listeners visit their site and watch their
> advertising and not to make the sound as friendly and easy to listen as
> possible.
>
> They are not bad. They are just trying to earn money like everybody else.
>
> If a sound is protected by copyright only, and let's say that certain
sound
> is free to listen just once then it requires payment, then that sound can
be
> put as a simple free file anywhere on the web. If the visitors will
respect
> the law, then they will download the file, listen it with Winamp or
> something else, then they would delete it if they don't want to pay.
> If the visitors don't respect the law, it is not nice to skip the law and
> make your own police, a technical police in this case, but... it works
this
> way, so nobody cares about those who have accessibility problems.
>
> Or by the way, because I might not know too much about those web-based
media
> players, is there such a web based media player that can allow a blind
> person using Jaws to fast forward or rewind, or stop, pause and restart
the
> sound again?
>
> Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:17 PM
> Subject: RE: protecting streaming mp3 files with asp.net?
>
>
> > Hi,
> > There could be a copyright issue with this.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
> > james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
> >
> > "Never doubt that a thoughtful group of committed citizens can change
the
> > world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >             "Graham Hardy"
> >             <graham.hardy@gma
> >             il.com>
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> >             Sent by:                  programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >             programmingblind-
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> >                                       RE: protecting streaming mp3 files
> >                                       with asp.net?
> >             10/30/2007 03:10
> >             PM
> >
> >
> >             Please respond to
> >             programmingblind@
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Andy - Why would you want to do this? From a usability point of view,
> > it
> > isn't always pleasant to have to sit in front of a computer to listen to
> > files; I would much prefer to listen to them on another device. Indeed,
I
> > find that I almost never make use of streams that cannot be downloaded,
so
> > it is likely to repel some of your visitors. Of course, it depends on
the
> > actual content: for instance, books must never be streamed (what if you
> > wanted to stop halfway and then resume a few days later?), whereas music
> > seems more workable this way, as does live content. -Graham.
> >
> > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy B
> > Sent: October 30, 2007 11:07 AM
> > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: protecting streaming mp3 files with asp.net?
> >
> > Hi...
> >
> > I have to stream mp3 files from an asp.net 2.0 website. I am trying to
> > figure out how you can let any visiter to the site play them but not
> > download them. Most of the examples out there show how in flash, but is
> > there another way?
> >
> >
> >
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