Content protection
Control your content
Maintaining control of your content is key to developing next-generation television business models. Whether limiting access to a live broadcast or enabling on-demand viewing of an advertising-supported experience online or offline, the ability to control who has access to your content and when, where, and why is a powerful business tool.
Online and offline
Adobe® Flash® Player software, Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5 software, and the Adobe AIR® runtime support a variety of content protection models:
- Protected streaming. Flash Player, Flash Media Server 3.5, and Adobe AIR support protected streaming. This model helps protect content from file theft, deep linking, and other attacks by preventing users from downloading, recording, or linking to FLV or F4V file content intended for a specific audience's eyes only.
- Encrypted streaming. Adobe Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP unencrypted) is featured in Flash Media Server. Flash Media Server implements Real Time Messaging Protocol Encrypted (RTMPE), adding higher performance encryption to help secure streamed media and communication. Flash Media Server also supports the streaming of encrypted content to Adobe AIR.
- Protected download. Flash Media Server 3.5 includes SWF file verification as well as integrity/validation checks for media files used in Adobe AIR to help protect downloaded content and enable free, ad-supported content models.
- Content integrity. This model protects sequences of content by validating the playlist to help ensure that assets cannot be pulled apart and reused or hosted elswhere.
- Identity-based licensing. The viewing of downloadable files can be set to require authentication on a per-user or group basis in conjunction with Adobe AIR to protect valuable content.
On mobile and on desktops
Flash Media Server 3.5 extends content protection to mobile devices by delivering prerecorded and live streaming to mobile platforms via Adobe Flash Lite® 3 software. Used in conjunction with Adobe AIR, Flash Media Server 3.5 content protection can be extended to instant messages, webcam chats, application remote control widgets, and any other data types imaginable.
