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By Sylvie Barak: Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 9:19 PM

"Adobe courts the big boys with a new addition to its Flash Media Server family, the Flash Media Rights Management Server software (FMRMS).

....shoving DRM into Flash will seriously limit what can be done with streamed flash content and will significantly impede fair use."

Story: The Inquirer


..and more on Flash & DRM:

"Users may also have to upgrade their Flash Player software (and open source alternatives like Gnash, which has been making rapid progress, may be unable to play the encrypted streams at all). Third-party software that can download Flash Video, like the most recent RealPlayer, will also break.

But Adobe now has an incentive to push the use of DRM: it's only available to sites that use Flash Media Server 3 software, which starts at over $4,000 (with extra fees depending on the number of simultaneous streams)."

Informative Article at: Electronic Frontier Foundation